United States Third Circuit

Card counting blackjack gamblers' allegations that casinos committed predicate RICO acts are completely insubstantial and border on being frivolous, given that blackjack players can avoid any injury simply by walking away from and not playing blackjack games in casinos.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/05/2000
• Decided 11/02/2000
• Published 11/02/2000

Judges

• BEFORE:  NYGAARD, GREENBERG and COWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Howard A. Altschuler (argued), East Haven, CT, Attorney for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Frederick H. Kraus, Sands Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City, NJ, Attorney for Appellees Greate Bay Casino, Greate Bay Hotel and Sands Hotel and Casino., Adam N. Saravay (argued), Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry, LLP, Newark, NJ, Attorneys for the Trump Casino Appellees and Co-Counsel for the Remaining Casino Appellees and Griffin Investigations., John M. Donnelly (argued), Levine, Staller, Sklar, Chan, Brodsky, & Donnelly, P.A., Atlantic City, NJ, Attorneys for Casino Appellees (other than the Trump Casino Defendants) and Griffin Investigations.