8 results for 'cat:"Civil Rights" AND cat:"Racketeering"'.
J. Myers partially grants two cheer leading coaches their motion to dismiss allegations of child abuse and RICO violations brought by a male cheerleader. The cheerleader claims that within the first year of his participation in a private, competitive cheer leading program, beginning when he was 12 years old, a male coach not party to this suit initiated a sexual relationship with him and that the two named coaches were aware and did not intervene. However, because the cheerleader does not accuse the two coaches of violating federal child abuse laws, but only a failure to report the abuse to the program, his claim fails. Likewise, his RICO claim fails because it does not present an injury to a business or property.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Myers, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 5:22cv430, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: civil Rights, Tort, racketeering
J. Chen dismisses all RICO claims against X, formerly Twitter, from a migrant who studied in the United States for several years before being captured and allegedly tortured by the government of Saudi Arabia. He says he was captured for being critical of the Saudi government on his X account and that company officials conspired with the Saudi government to turn over his location and account information. He has failed to state any actionable claim under the Alien Tort Statute, and even if he did, his RICO claims are barred by the four-year statute of limitations.
Court: USDC Northern District of California, Judge: Chen, Filed On: February 9, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv2369, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: civil Rights, International Law, racketeering
J. Hightower recommends that the district court dismiss a civil rights, RICO, fraud and breach of contract action brought by an individual against the insurer, attorneys representing the insurer, and state government and court employees. The court employees are entitled to qualified immunity from the individual's claims arising from their alleged failure to schedule hearings or respond to transcript requests in an underlying action. The individual's claim against the insurer under the Fourteenth Amendment should also be dismissed for failure to allege facts supporting a conspiracy between the insurer and state actors. The individual's RICO claim should be dismissed for failure to plausibly allege the existence of a racketeering enterprise.
Court: USDC Western District of Texas , Judge: Hightower, Filed On: August 17, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv337, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Fraud, racketeering
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J. Copperhite grants a police officer’s motion for summary judgment following allegations by a pedestrian that the officer had falsely arrested him and accused him of stashing a gun in some bushes. Although this officer was eventually indicted by a federal grand jury for RICO violations and sentenced to 18 years’ in prison, in this case, the pedestrian could not provide sufficient evidence of his claim that this officer planted the gun.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Copperhite, Filed On: July 20, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv488, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Firearms, racketeering
J. Immergut dismisses with prejudice the committee administrator's lawsuit alleging that the members of the Oregon State Bar Board of Bar Examiners abused their positions to initiate joint public corruption investigations against the committee administrator on behalf of oil companies that opposed Senate Bill 664 that the committee administrator supported in 1987. The committee administrator's federal claims are time-barred because they all stem from the 1987 public corruption investigations. While he claims damages for the last 30 years, he does not prove how this is relevant within the four-year statute of limitations, nor does he come up with a justification to overlook how he did not discover his initial injuries until after the original statute of limitations.
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: Immergut, Filed On: May 31, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv1959, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Fraud, racketeering