Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Religious Technology Center v. Wollersheim
Religious Tech. Ctr. v. Wollersheim, 479 U.S. 1103 (1987)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1987-02-23
- Topic
- intellectual-property-and-technology
How later courts describe this case
- discussing, in depth, the legislative history of § 1964 and concluding “that Congress did not intend to give private civil RICO plaintiffs access to equitable remedies”
- “the treble damages remedy is a potent weapon, [which] necessarily assumes that economic injury has occurred”
- held that the trial court correctly admitted statistical evidence that only 12% of the male population shared the defendant’s seminal characteristics
- equitable relief unavailable under RICO
Citator
UpLaw has not yet analyzed Religious Technology Center v. Wollersheim. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.
Justice Brennan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.