Legal Opinion
Goldfine v. Sichenzia
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 14, 2000No. 00 Civ. 0372PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER DISMISSING ACTION
McMAHON, District Judge.
In the recent case of Spoto v. Herkimer County Trust, 2000 WL 533293 *1 (N.D.N.Y. Apr.27, 2000), Judge Howard G. Munson of my sister Court made the following prescient observation:
Plaintiffs’ instant action is a superlative example of why some legal minds posit that the civil provisions of [RICO] are the most misused statutes in the federal corpus of law.
2000 WL 533293 at * 1.
Judge Munson knew whereof he spoke. I surmise that every member of the federal bench has before him or her at least one— and possibly more — garden…
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