United States First Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's civil action, alleging that defendants participated in an illegal racketeering scheme in violation of the RICO Act, for failure to state a claim, is affirmed where the complaint alleged neither a closed-ended nor an open-ended pattern of racketeering activity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2005
• Published 03/07/2005

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert S. Ovoian, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas A. Reed, with whom J. Owen Todd, David H. Rich, and Todd & Weld LLP were on brief, for appellees.