United States Ninth Circuit

In a case involving an Idaho county's attempt to recover, from defendants, damages under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for additional monies it claimed to have expended on public health care and law enforcement services for undocumented immigrants, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed as the county lacked statutory standing for the RICO claims where: 1) county failed to allege that it was injured in its business or property; and 2) with respect to almost all of defendants' alleged RICO violations, county could not show that its claimed injuries were proximately caused by defendants' conduct.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/07/2007
• Decided 03/21/2008
• Published 03/21/2008

Judges

• TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:, Before:  WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Howard W. Foster, Johnson & Bell, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• George R. Wood, Littler Mendelson, P.C., Minneapolis, MN, for defendant-appellee Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Juan P. Morillo, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee Sorrento Lactalis, Inc., Marie R. Yeates, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Houston, TX, for defendant-appellee Swift Beef Company., Richard A. Leasia, Thelen Reid & Priest, LLP, San Jose, CA, for defendant-appellee Harris Moran Seed Company., Cynthia J. Woolley, The Law Offices of Cynthia J. Woolley, PLLC, Ketchum, ID, for defendant-appellee Albert Pacheco.