United States Tenth Circuit

In a dispute between several landowners and a Utah county and its zoning regime alleging that their administration of county's zoning ordinances constitutes a pattern of extortion in violation of RICO, summary judgment against landowners is affirmed where the district court correctly found that the county officials had committed no illegal predicate acts as required to support a RICO claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/05/2007
• Published 06/06/2007

Judges

• LUCERO, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, MURPHY, Circuit Judges, and ROBINSON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bruce R. Baird (Alain C. Balmanno with him on the briefs), Hutchings, Baird, & Jones PLLC, Salt Lake City, UT, for the Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jody K. Burnett (George A. Hunt and Robert C. Keller, Williams & Hunt;  and Steven W. Allred, Woolstenhulme, Kerr and Richer, Salt Lake City, UT, with her on the briefs), Williams & Hunt, Salt Lake City, UT for the Defendants-Appellees.