United States Tenth Circuit

In a case involving the estate of the late billionaire Howard Hughes alleging that defendants deprived plaintiff of his inheritance by conspiring to cause a jury to reject a Holographic Will in 1978, dismissal of plaintiffs' claims is affirmed where: 1) fraud and federal RICO claims were each time-barred; 2) a Nevada RICO claim failed to state a claim; and 3) an unjust-enrichment claim was barred by issue preclusion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/14/2008
• Published 09/15/2008

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, HARTZ, and GORSUCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stuart L. Stein, The Stein Law Firm, Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Randy L. Dryer (Gordon L. Roberts and James T. Blanch, with him on the briefs), of Parsons, Behle & Latimer, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellee Lummis., Peggy A. Tomsic (Eric K. Schnibbe, with her on the briefs), of Tomsic & Peck, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendants-Appellees Gay.