Legal Opinion
Jane Doe v. John Roe, and Roe and Roe, Limited
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 4, 1992No. 91-1289PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Time and again, federal courts have emphasized that RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq.) was designed as a flexible tool for fighting organized crime in the United States. Equally well known are the novel — and often imaginative — ways in which civil plaintiffs have attempted to use this flexibility in order to exploit RICO’s provisions for treble damages and attorney’s fees. In this appeal, we are asked to determine whether a plaintiff may bring a civil action under RICO where she alleges that her divorce attorney…
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