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Supreme Court· 2/23/2000

Rotella v. Wood

Citations

  • 528 U.S. 549
  • 120 S. Ct. 1075
  • 145 L. Ed. 2d 1047
  • 2000 U.S. LEXIS 1537

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the statute of limitations for RICO claims begins to run upon Plaintiffs discovery of the injury, not discovery of the other elements of the claim
  • holding that accrual occurs upon “the point of injury or its reasonable discovery”
  • holding that plaintiffs RICO claim was barred by the statute of limitations
  • holding RICO claims accrue upon a plaintiff's discovery of their injury, not discovery of Defendants’ actions
  • noting that court should not permit contract claims nor simple fraud disputes to be transformed into RICO claims
  • reserving the question of whether the injury discovery rule applies in civil RICO and, by extension, Clayton Act cases

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Judges: Souter

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