Legal Opinion
United States v. Elliott
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 21, 1978No. 76-3678PublishedCited by 281 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:
In this case we deal with the question of whether and, if so, how a free society can protect itself when groups of people, through division of labor, specialization, diversification, complexity of organization, and the accumulation of capital, turn crime into an ongoing business. Congress fired a telling shot at organized crime when it passed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970, popularly known as RICO. 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 et seq. (1970). Since the enactment of RICO, the federal courts, guided by constitutional and legislative dictates, have…
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