CHIVAS PRODUCTS LTD. v. OWEN

No. 87-1784.

864 F.2d 1280 (1988)

CHIVAS PRODUCTS LIMITED, a Michigan Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jeffrey B. OWEN, Judco Manufacturing, Inc., a foreign corporation; Jeffrey Owen & Associates, Inc., a Michigan Corporation; Robert J. Smith; Judco Automotive, Inc., a Michigan Corporation and Thomas Buttner, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. O'Reilly, Bert T. Ross (argued), O'Reilly, Rancilio, Nitz, Andrews & Turnbull, P.C., Sterling Heights, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

Richard W. Bullard, III, Lyon, Colbert & Bullard, Rochester, Mich., Rockwood W. Bullard, III, Clarence L. Hudson, Troy, Mich., Kieran F. Cunningham (argued), Southfield, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before MERRITT, KRUPANSKY and BOGGS, Circuit Judges.


MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

This is a removal case transferred from the state to the federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1441.1 The dispositive question on appeal from the District Court's dismissal of a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) civil action is one of subject-matter jurisdiction: is civil RICO jurisdiction exclusively federal or concurrent with the states, and if exclusively federal, does the doctrine of ...

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