That's the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Although the killing occurred in Colombia, the lawsuit argues that U.S. federal laws -- including the Alien Tort Statute and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act -- give American courts jurisdiction in the case.
The two companies are now faced with a class-action lawsuit arguing that a joint venture between them violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as RICO.
Linsey plans to file at least one complaint under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations (RICO) act, alleging that Wal-Mart harbored and transported janitorial staff it knew were working illegally.
The original RICO complaint now on appeal, filed on behalf of four of the five current plaintiffs, identifies CAIR as a racketeering enterprise under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which is a criminal racketeering statute that allows victims to sue defendants in civil court.
Japan cries out for change as loudly as the familiar sound trucks blare out the screeds of racketeer-friendly right-wing parties.
As a typically self-denigrating joke goes, the difference between a Ukrainian racketeer and a Russian one is that the Ukrainian has no money.
Facing that challenge, the lawyers might reach for the similarly vague federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization law, which also allows for treble damages.
For Mr. Reynolds, the result is that rather than merely being charged as an individual who allegedly received kickbacks, he bears the label of an accused racketeer.
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These three mild suburban guys strike it rich only after Rock assumes the identity of a jailed racketeer and dubs his group CB4 (for Cell Block Four).
This farce about a Prohibition racketeer named Snaps Provolone (Sylvester Stallone) is the kind of film in which an accountant named Little Anthony (Vincent Spano) is sure to drive an Imperial.
Circuit upheld U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler's ruling in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, case, which found the tobacco industry guilty of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to defraud the American public about the health risks of tobacco.
Of the 65 counts in the indictment, Hall and 34 others were charged with one count of violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as RICO.
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Along the way, she falls in love with one of the participants, Michel (Carlo Brandt), a hard-nosed, tenderhearted small-time racketeer who is soon to be released.
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