civil-rico
20 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6408 | Lynette Cooper v. City of Baltimore, Maryland, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-19 | Pending | IFP | chemical-battery civil-rico due-process judicial-review pro-se-litigant witness-tampering | 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's Due Process rights by affirming the District Court's sua sponte dismissal of a detailed civil RIC… |
| 25A716 | Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Application | civil-rico documentary-evidence first-amendment fraud-claims historical-representations religious-organization | Whether civil courts may, consistent with the First Amendment, adjudicate fraud and concealment claims predicated on objective historical facts and do… | |
| 25-395 | Eran Rubinstein, et al. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response Waived | accrual-rule civil-rico federal-claims injury-discovery legal-procedure statute-of-limitations | 1. The first question presented is whether civil RICO is subject to a "separate accrual" rule whereby a new claim accrues, triggering a new four-yea… |
| 25-27 | Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. | Colorado | 2025-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | antitrust charter-school civil-rico due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-55 | The questions presented are: Question One: Whether Petitioner is entitled to $2.6 billion in civil RICO default judgment under Rule 55 where Defendan… |
| 24-1302 | MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC, a Delaware Series Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lundbeck LLC, a Delaware Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rico drug-manufacturer foreseeability prescribing-decisions proximate-cause rico-statute | (1) Whether, in a civil RICO action against a drug manufacturer for overpayment of drugs, physicians' prescribing decisions constitute an intervening … |
| 24A170 | Jonathan Zuhovitzky, et al. v. UBS AG Che 101.329.562, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-08-13 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-rico federal-question financial-institution investment-fraud summary-order | Question not identified. | |
| 23-365 | Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al. v. Douglas J. Horn | Second Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-damages civil-rico economic-harm personal-injury rico rico-act statutory-interpretation | Whether economic harms resulting from personal injuries are injuries to "business or property by reason of" the defendant's acts for purposes of civil… |
| 22-1159 | Troy Newman v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | civil-rico false-identification interstate-commerce pattern-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering-activity predicate-acts proximate-cause rico-statute undercover-investigation | In a classic case of the "abortion distortion," Planned Parenthood repackaged its PR black-eye over selling aborted baby parts into a court-approved R… | |
| 22-381 | Ashot Yegiazaryan, aka Ashot Egiazaryan v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | business-reputation civil-rico court-judgment domestic-injury foreign-injury foreign-plaintiff intangible-property legal-test patent | In RJR Nabisco, this Court, applying the presumption against extraterritoriality, held that a civil RICO plaintiff states a cognizable claim under RIC… |
| 22-5395 | Michael Gorrio v. Correctional Officer Francis, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-rico civil-rico-conspiracy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review well-pleaded-facts | I. DID THE APPELLANT'S AMENDED COMPLAINT OF 43 PRESENT SUB-SECTION WELLPLEADED FACTS, AS TO PLAUSIBLY STATE A CLAIM TO SUPPORT THE COURT TO OVERCOME M… |
| 21-1608 | McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix | Second Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities | Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c… |
| 19-901 | Devon Drive Lionville, LP, et al. v. Parke Bank, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | causation-chain chain-of-causation civil-rico fdic fdic-regulation mail-fraud proximate-cause wire-fraud | What standards and criteria are appropriate in a civil RICO case to determine whether proximate cause exists for a plaintiff who is not the direct rec… | |
| 19-6829 | Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-court appeals civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure federal-rules in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure procedural-rules recusal | When the court does not file the summons and compliant for a Petitioner that was granted to proceed in forma pauperis, dose it violate Petitioners due… |
| 19-695 | Dean Browning Webb, et al. v. Deere Credit, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | beck beck-v-prupis civil-liability civil-rico co-conspirator-liability conspiracy-law mediate-causation pinkerton-doctrine procedural-sanctions rico-1962-d salinas salinas-v-united-states | Pinkerton, Salinas, Beck, and mediate causation: Does the Pinkerton Doctrine, Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640, 647, 66 S.Ct. 1180, 90 L. Ed. … |
| 19-533 | River Birch, Incorporated, et al. v. Waste Management of Louisiana, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response Waived | antitrust burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure civil-rico evidence evidentiary-inference federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure matsushita-standard precedent rule-56 summary-judgment | In Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. U. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 588 (1986), this Court held that "ambiguous" circumstantial evidence—evid… |
| 19-390 | William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rico collateral-estoppel constitutional-amendments due-process federal-procedure final-judgment-act first-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court interlocutory-appeal jury-trial obstruction-of-justice | 1. Whether district court orders dedicate any section of the opinion(s) to deny petitioner's Civil RICO 18 U.S.C. 1961-1964, in the verified complaint… |
| 18-1557 | William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rico copyright-act copyright-infringement creative-rights due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property licensing plagiarism | A. Whether the U.S. Copyright Act and Clause 17 U.S.C. 501, the Copyright Act Clause and the First Amendment of the U.S. Const., Art. 1, Sec. 8, equal… |
| 18-1489 | Curtland H. Caffey, et al. v. Brenda K. Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rico good-faith good-faith-defense property-of-estate rico rico-action statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the… | |
| 18-890 | David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario | Second Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim when the alleged RICO violation har… | |
| 18-230 | Robert Allen Richards, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response Waived | bill-of-attainder canon-law child-support civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process paternity-fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing | The District Court did not let me Re-establish my standing in the new lower court when they changed courts. The Appeals court and the District court … |