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· 1/28/1916

United States v. Bene

Citations

  • 6 Ct. Cust. 523
  • 1916 WL 21702
  • 1916 CCPA LEXIS 15

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a RICO injury does not occur until a debt becomes uncollectible and the note holder exhausts his contractual remedies
  • holding that plaintiff-creditor “can only pursue the RICO treble damages remedy after his contractual rights to payment have been frustrated”
  • holding that allegations of a methodologically unreliable appraisal were not sufficient to establish property values as a fact in a RICO complaint
  • concluding that statements made to officer were not excited utterance because the statements related to a prior event
  • noting that \injury to business or property\ is one of three \conditions a plaintiff must meet to satisfy RICO's [statutory] standing requirements\
  • recognizing \foreseeability\ approach, but relying on \direct causation\ analysis for loss causation

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Judges: Barber, Martin, Montgomery, Smith, Vries

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