STAINTON v. TARANTINO

No. 84-5619.

637 F.Supp. 1051 (1986)

Edward STAINTON and Christine Stainton, Plaintiffs, v. Thomas TARANTINO and Morgan Jones, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

June 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Elliott, Baskin, Flaherty, Elliott & Mannino, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Seymour I. Toll, Philadelphia, Pa., for Thomas Tarantino.

Allen D. Black, Philadelphia, Pa., for Morgan Jones.


MEMORANDUM, ORDER AND JUDGMENT

KATZ, District Judge.

This case illustrates what happens when ordinary contract and professional malpractice claims are dressed in the costume of RICO. A simple claim that a wealthy investor in real estate tax shelters and his difficult wife were frozen out of future deals by a parvenu becomes an exaggerated struggle between good and evil. A marginal claim that an overly busy lawyer out to get business neglected a matter becomes...

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