Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Union Bank v. Wolas

Union Bank v. Wolas, 500 U.S. 915 (1991)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1991-05-13
Topic
labor-and-employment

How later courts describe this case

  • declining to adopt Grady test in RICO context and limiting its application to “offenses arising from a single discrete event”
  • “a federal sentence does not begin to run until the defendant is delivered to the place where the sentence is to be served”
  • "we believe that the appellants' primary contention is that the relationship plus continuity test for a pattern of racketeering under RICO is unconstitutionally vague.... Thus H.J. Inc. is more pertinent than Fort Wayne Books to our discussion."
  • “The double jeopardy analysis in ... Grady ... cannot easily be transposed to the RICO context____ Instead, we consider the double jeopardy problem posed by the successive prosecutions [in a RICO case] to be more closely analogous to that in [Garrett ]____”

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The motion of California Bankers Association for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae is granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.