Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Nassau County Republican Committee v. Cullen
Nassau County Republican Comm. v. Cullen, 483 U.S. 1021 (1987)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1987-06-26
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding that an entity may be both the liable "person” and part of the RICO “enterprise” where the enterprise consisted of. more than the entity itself
- "[W]e see no reason why a single entity could not be both the RICO 'person' and one of a number of members of the RICO 'enterprise.' "
- Under the almost identically worded F.R.C.P. 49a, it would be inappropriate to deem the trial court to have made a finding as to an omitted issue when the trial court expressly disavowed making a finding.
- preponderance of the evidence standard applies in civil RICO cases
Citator
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.