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A class-action racketeering lawsuit that accuses H&R Block, the big tax preparation company, and Household International, a consumer lender, of conspiring to trick poor customers into taking out high-interest loans will proceed toward trial, a federal judge in Chicago ruled on Tuesday.
Some have tried suing under state or federal laws that permit action against racketeering enterprises, but such laws are often geared toward financial damage, not an emotionally scarring experience.
Lawyers also plan to file a civil racketeering action alleging a corporate conspiracy with the Bush administration.
In his 2008 ruling, Judge Weinstein certified the case as a class action on the racketeering claims for all plaintiffs except individual patients who bought the drug.
"This shows the initial success of Chevron's take-no-prisoner litigation strategy," in filing a racketeering action against its opponents, said Ralph G. Steinhardt, a law a law and international affairs professor at George Washington University, who has been tracking the case.
Keating was hit with a $1.1 billion fraud and racketeering action, filed against him by the regulators.
In September 1989, Keating was hit with a $1.1 billion fraud and racketeering action, filed against him by the regulators.
When the same U.S. attorney looks at Democrat Paul Minor's actions, he sees racketeering.
Seyfarth Shaw is also currently defending the Weinstein Co. against a racketeering class action complaint alleging that the company was complicit in Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct.
Such actions, revealed in a racketeering case against Mr. Bulger in the late '90s, became a huge embarrassment for the F.B.I.
