United States Tenth Circuit

At the pleading stage of civil RICO actions, a plaintiff must plead damages to business or property in a manner consistent with FRCP 8, to show standing, and is not required to plead with the particularity required by FRCP 9(b).

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/21/2002
• Published 08/21/2002

Judges

• McKAY, Circuit Judge., Before EBEL and McKAY, Circuit Judges, and SAM, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marc R. Stimpert (Karen Budd-Falen with him on the briefs) of Budd-Falen Law Offices, P.C., Cheyenne, WY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas D. Roberts, Assistant United States Attorney (Matthew H. Mead, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming, Cheyenne, WY, for Defendants-Appellees.