Walter v. Palisades Collection, LLC

MEMORANDUM

EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District Judge.

Before the Court is the often rehearsed yet unsettled question of whether reliance upon a misrepresentation is required in order to maintain a civil RICO action predicated on mail or wire fraud.

It all started so simply. A debt collector told an individual that she owed a debt; the individual disagreed; the debt collector sued; the individual contested the suit; and the debt collector withdrew the suit. The case is resolved and the individual is vindicated.

Instead, the individual who was sued now seeks to transform this routine back- and-forth into…