Court Opinion

ID: 9475854
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 05:40:09.656092+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:44:58.617944
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CUDAHY, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
The complaint in this case alleges that one victim was deprived of his partnership interests affecting his tax liability for a single year. These facts appear to involve a single episode of alleged wrongdoing, see Graham v. Slaughter, 624 F.Supp. 222, 225 (N.D.Ill.1985). The majority would apparently not require that there be multiple schemes in order to meet the pattern requirements of RICO, cf. Northern Trust Bank/O’Hare, N.A. v. Inryco, Inc., 615 F.Supp. 828, 833 (N.D.Ill.1985). Distinctions of this sort may be metaphysical but nonetheless seem useful if we are to continue to attempt to limit civil RICO on the authority of footnote 14 of Sedima, S.P.R.L. v. Imrex Co., Inc., 473 U.S. 479, 105 S. Ct. 3275, 3285 n. 14, 87 L.Ed.2d 346 (1985). On the basis I have indicated I join in the majority’s skillful resolution of the case.