United States Fifth Circuit

Dismissal of common law and RICO claims affirmed, where plaintiff failed to demonstrate the existence of an association and enterprise separate from the predicate acts of defendants, who purportedly sought to defraud plaintiff of mineral rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2003
• Published 02/05/2003

Judges

• DUHÉ, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DUHÉ and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ron Adkison (argued), Wellborn, Houston, Adkison, Mann, Sadler & Hill, Henderson, TX, Damon Michael Young, Sr., Young, Pickett & Lee, Texarkana, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants., Deborah Johnson Race (argued), Ireland, Carroll & Kelley, Tyler, TX, for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.