Legal Opinion
Edward A. Chappell v. Alan Robbins
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 4, 1996No. 93-17063PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POOLE, Circuit Judge:
In passing the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq., Congress created a wide array of novel civil and criminal weapons to use against crime and corruption. We must decide whether in doing so, Congress expressed a clear intent to abrogate legislators’ common-law immunity. We hold that it did not.
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This appeal involves a civil RICO suit by an aggrieved citizen, Edward Chappell, against a former California State Senator, Alan Robbins. Because this is an appeal from a Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal, we take as true all material…
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