Legal Opinion
Stainton v. Tarantino
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 25, 1986No. 84-5619PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM, ORDER AND JUDGMENT
KATZ, District Judge.
This case illustrates what happens when ordinary contract and professional malpractice claims are dressed in the costume of RICO. A simple claim that a wealthy investor in real estate tax shelters and his difficult wife were frozen out of future deals by a parvenu becomes an exaggerated struggle between good and evil. A marginal claim that an overly busy lawyer out to get business neglected a matter becomes a vast conspiracy between a lawyer and his client to retire on the money of a rich investor. What is portrayed as the grand opera of…
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3Cited by37 opinions
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