United States Third Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiffs' civil RICO complaint is affirmed due to the failure to establish a proximate causal relationship between the alleged racketeering acts and the claimed injury, which is necessary to satisfy the RICO standing requirement.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2004
• Decided 01/24/2005
• Published 01/24/2005

Judges

• BECKER, Circuit Judge., Before NYGAARD, ROSENN and BECKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John F. Innelli (Argued), Philadelphia, PA, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Samuel L. Spear (Argued), Spear, Wilderman, Borish, Endy, Spear & Runckel, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees Vanderwoude and Kada., Robert M. Baptiste, Susan Boyle, Baptiste & Wilder, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Appellees Hoffa and International Brotherhood of Teamsters., Marc L. Bogutz, William F. McDevitt, Christie, Pabarue, Mortensen and Young, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellee Kohn.