Rebecca J. Schofield v. First Commodity Corporation of Boston, Rebecca J. Schofield v. First Commodity Corporation of Boston

How courts have described this case

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• limiting the circumstances under which corporate liability can attach in a RICO action
• “We think it inappropriate to use resyondeat suyerior to accomplish indirectly what we have concluded the statute directly denies”
• extent to which statute incorporates common law principles of agency liability depends on the extent to which the principles are consistent with the statute’s language and purposes
• extent to which statute incorporates common law principles of agency liability depends on the extent to which the principles are consistent with the statute’s language and purposes
• “[S]ection 1962(c) requires that the culpable person be ‘employed by or associated with’ an enterprise; we think it stretches the language too far to suggest that a corporation can be employed by or associated with itself.”
• “Both the language” of the RICO Act “and the articulated primary motivation” show that “the concept of vicarious liability” or even “a modified version . . . requiring some level of scienter” would be “directly at odds” with the statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).