Read LERNER v. FLEET BANK, N.A., 01-7755

Lack of RICO standing does not divest a district court of jurisdiction over the action because RICO standing, unlike other standing doctrines, is sufficiently intertwined with the merits of a RICO claim that such a rule would turn the underlying merits questions into jurisdictional issues.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/22/2003
• Published 01/23/2003

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  STRAUB and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• G. Robert Blakey,Notre Dame Law School (James B. Zane, Edward S. Rudofsky, Arlene H. Schechter, on the brief), Notre Dame, IN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard F. Ziegler, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton (David M. Meisels, of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Fleet Bank, N.A., Celia G. Barenholtz, Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP (Chaya Weinberg-Brodt, of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Republic National Bank of New York., Allen C. Wasserman, Owen & Davis PC, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Sterling National Bank and Trust Company of New York.