Southern Intermodal Logistics, Inc. v. D.J. Powers Co.

ORDER

EDENFIELD, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Southern Intermodal Logistics, Inc. (“SIL”), an interstate motor carrier, brought this Georgia RICO-based action against several defendants for conspiring to extort from SIL illegal kickbacks to defendant D.J. Powers Company, Inc. (“Powers”). SIL contends that Powers and its co-conspirators wanted it to pay Powers the kickback for each container of cargo that SIL hauled from an ocean freight port of entry (“POE”) to a K-Mart Corporation inland distribution center.

Because this case is fact-heavy and compels a rigorous examination of…