United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiff, alleging wrongful conviction and incarceration, lacks standing to bring this RICO claim because he fails to allege injury to "business or property." A showing of such injury requires proof of concrete financial loss, not mere injury to a valuable intangible property interest.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/08/2003
• Decided 01/20/2004
• Published 01/20/2004

Judges

• Before: BRUNETTI, NELSON, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Yagman, Esq., Venice, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Janet G. Bogigian, DCA, Los Angeles, CA, for the appellee.