SEDIMA, S. P. R. L.

v.

IMREX CO., INC., ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (15 total)

• Sedima v. Imrex Co., Inc., 473 U.S. 479 (U.S. 1985)
  …ne episode in a recent proliferation of civil RICO litigation within the Second Circuit5 and [*486] in other Courts of Appeals.6 In light of the variety of approaches taken by the lower courts and the importance of the issues, we granted certiorari. 469 U. S. 1157 (1984). We now reverse. II As a preliminary matter, it is worth briefly reviewing the legislative history of the private treble-damages action. RICO formed Title IX of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Pub. L. 91-452, 84 Stat. 922. The civi…
• Am. Nat'l Bank & Tr. Co. of Chicago v. Haroco, Inc., 473 U.S. 606 (U.S. 1985)
  …ate offenses, such as acts of mail fraud. ” Id., at 114. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed in relevant part, 747 F. 2d 384 (1984), rejecting various formulations of a requirement of a distinct RICO injury. We granted. certiorari, 469 U. S. 1157 (1984), to consider the question whether a claim under § 1964(c) requires that the plaintiff have suffered damages by reason of the defendant’s violation of § 1962 through the prescribed predicate offenses, or whether injury from those offenses alon…
• Dowling v. United States, 473 U.S. 207 (U.S. 1985)
  …certiorari to resolve an apparent conflict among the Circuits6 concerning the application of the statute to interstate shipments of bootleg and pirated sound recordings and motion pictures whose unauthorized distribution infringed valid copyrights. 469 U. S. 1157 (1985). * * * * * Federal crimes, of course, are solely creatures of statute.” Liparota v. United States, 471 U. S. 419, 424 (1985), citing United States v. Hudson, 7 Cranch 32 (1812). Accordingly, when assessing the reach of a federal criminal st…