Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Union Bank v. Wolas

500 U.S. 915

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

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." | “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.