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Click on the outline entries to link with their respective discussion pages.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A.\u00a0 Introduction<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

B.\u00a0 Section 1962(c) Claims<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Defendant Persons<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Enterprise<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

a.\u00a0 Enterprise \/ Racketeering Activity Distinction<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

b.\u00a0 Person \/ Enterprise Distinction<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

c.\u00a0 An Enterprise Engaged in or Affecting Interstate Commerce<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Defendants’ Operation or Management of the Enterprise<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 The Pattern<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

a.\u00a0 Relatedness<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

b.\u00a0 Continuity<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

c.\u00a0 Multiple Schemes and the Pattern<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Racketeering Activity<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

a.\u00a0 Mail and Wire Fraud<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

b.\u00a0 Financial Institution \u00a0Fraud<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

c.\u00a0 Extortion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

i.\u00a0 \u00a0The Obtaining of Property from Another And Threats of Physical Violence<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ii.\u00a0 The Issue of Consent<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

iii.\u00a0 Extortion under Color Of Official Right<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

iv.\u00a0 Extortion vs. Legitimate Exercise of Government Power<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

v.\u00a0 \u00a0Other Predicate Acts Related to Extortion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

d.\u00a0 Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

e.\u00a0 Extraterritorial Acts of Racketeering<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

C.\u00a0 Civil Remedies under Section 1964<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>Proximate Cause<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

a.\u00a0 Intervening Factors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

i.\u00a0 Non-predicate Acts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ii.\u00a0\u00a0Independent Contributing Factors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

iii.\u00a0 Directly Injured Third-party Victims<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

b.\u00a0 Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Bank Fraud – Reasonable Reliance<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Injury to Business or Property<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Equitable Relief<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Securities Fraud<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

D.\u00a0 Section 1962(a) & (b) Claims<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Association-in-Fact Enterprises Under Sections 1962(a) & (b)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Injury “by reason of” a Section 1962(a) Violation<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Injury “by reason of” a Section 1962(b) Violation<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

E.\u00a0\u00a0Conspiracies to violate RICO – Section 1962(d)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

F.\u00a0 RICO’s Statute of Limitations <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Limitations Period<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Accrual of a Civil RICO Claim<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

a.\u00a0 Early Conflicting Accrual Rules<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

b.\u00a0 The Supreme Court’s Effort to Resolve the Conflict<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Tolling Doctrines<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

4. New and Independent Injuries<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

G.\u00a0 Conclusion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n