Legal Opinion
Flinders v. Datasec Corp.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided July 16, 1990No. Civ. A. 89-1763-APublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
Introduction
Not yet decided in this Circuit is whether an employee terminated for threatening to expose, or refusing to participate in, his employer’s allegedly unlawful racketeering practices has standing to sue his employer under RICO 1 to recover for the termination. Defendants’ threshold dismissal motions in this case present this question. And while the answer to this question is the same for both the substantive RICO offense alleged in Count I and the RICO conspiracy offense alleged in Count II, the analytical path to the answer is different for…
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