Sentences with phrase «racketeering actions»

And that enviro - activists» collective accusation against skeptic climate scientists might backfire under tough scrutiny, potentially exposing them — Shabecoff, Gelbspan, Naomi Oreskes, «Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action,» and Al Gore — as people engaging in the kind of racketeering action they claim is being done by the fossil fuel companies?

Not exact matches

The plaintiffs» racketeering claim was certified as a class action.

On February 26 of this year, for instance, eight members of the Court ruled that the federal racketeering statute (popularly known as RICO) did not apply to the efforts of the Pro-Life Action Network to shut down various abortion clinics.

Robert Sarfo Mensah The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) has applauded the president Nana Akufo - Addo for taking swift action in the visa - racketeering scandal that has embarrassed the nation.

In July 2017, the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) filed a consumer class action lawsuit against the Petland chain, and its location in Kennesaw, Georgia, for racketeering.

Sanders» letter said the Exxon revelations «raise serious allegations of a misinformation campaign that may have caused public harm similar to the tobacco industry's actions — conduct that led to federal racketeering convictions.»

In the face of Donald Trump's cabinet nomination of Scott Pruitt, an AG who was part of the backlash against the racketeering persecution of «climate deniers», is Shabecoff actually blissfully unaware that in the legal action he's demanding, the accusation would be cross examined in order to determine whether people accused of denying climate change and deliberately spreading lies and misinformation for the purpose of criminally blocking meaningful action... actually undertook exactly that action??

The third statute is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act («RICO»), 18 U.S.C. § § 1961 - 1968 (Counts 3 and 4), which provides private parties with a cause of action to recover treble damages due to injuries they received from a defendant's unlawful racketeering activity and the government with a cause of action to seek other equitable remedies to prevent future unlawful acts.

Instead of the accusation from Schneiderman et al. being that Exxon engaged in racketeering in order to misinform its shareholders about the certainty of man - caused global warming, the question should be asked if a particular clique of enviro - activists (Gore, Oreskes, Gelbspan and those at «Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action» http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=4482) instead engaged in racketeering when it comes to hoodwinking environmentalist donors about the certainty that skeptic climate scientists are «industry - paid crooks.»

This racketeering case concerns allegations that judicial campaign donations led the Illinois Supreme Court to overturn improperly a $ 1.05 billion judgment in a 2005 consumer class action suit, Avery v. State Farm.

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