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Racketeering After Morrison: Extraterritorial Application Of Civil Rico, Daniel Hoppe
Racketeering After Morrison: Extraterritorial Application Of Civil Rico, Daniel Hoppe
Northwestern University Law Review
In Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd., the Supreme Court set forth a framework to identify the extraterritorial reach of a federal statute. The Supreme Court required that a statute demonstrate congressional intent to apply to extraterritorial conduct. Under this framework, federal courts have found that civil RICO does not apply to extraterritorial conduct. However, the courts have been inconsistent in their analysis of RICO under Morrison. Some courts have found that RICO does not apply to extraterritorial enterprises while others have found that RICO does not apply to extraterritorial conduct. But the courts have been consistent in …