Wayne Newton v. Tyson Foods, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• denying RICO standing for lack of proximate causation where injury was too attenuated
• denying RICO standing for lack of proximate causation where injury was too attenuated
• finding no proximate cause where poultry producers allegedly bribed federal regulators, which led to more lenient poultry regulations, which led to lower poultry prices, which led to less demand for the beef that plaintiffs sold, costing them business
• \The alleged injuries... are far distant along the chain of causation from [defendants'] alleged wrongs and are too attenuated and removed from those wrongs to provide a basis for standing under RICO.\
• “The alleged injuries ... are far distant along the chain of causation from [defendants’] alleged wrongs and are too attenuated and removed from those wrongs to provide a basis for standing under RICO.”
• “Plaintiffs have standing in a civil RICO case only if the RICO violations both factually and proximately caused injury to the plaintiffs’ business or property.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).