BIETER CO. v. BLOMQUIST

No. 92-2018.

987 F.2d 1319 (1993)

BIETER COMPANY, Appellant, v. Beatta BLOMQUIST; Federal Land Company; Eagan Tower Office Building Partnership; Eagan Heights Commercial Park; Advance Developers, Inc.; Cliff Road Properties; Hoffman Development Group, Inc.; HDG Associates Limited Partnership; Eagan Associates Limited Partnership; CRP of Eagan, Inc.; Robert L. Hoffman; Patrick C. Hoffman; Jack F. Daly, Jr., Appellees. ADVANCE DEVELOPERS, INC.; Cliff Road Properties; Hoffman Development Group, Inc.; HDG Associates Limited Partnership; Eagan Associates Limited Partnership; CRP of Eagan, Inc.; Robert L. Hoffman; Patrick C. Hoffman; Jack F. Daly, Jr., Third Party Plaintiffs, v. DORSEY & WHITNEY, a Minnesota partnership; Ryan Construction Company of Minnesota, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, Third Party Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 8, 1993.

Rehearing Denied April 22, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Walter Bachman, Jr., Minneapolis, MN, argued (James McCarthy and Michael Olafson on the brief), for appellant.

Robert Barth, Minneapolis, MN, argued (Cindy J. Larson, Minneapolis, MN and Gary Fuchs, Eagan, MN, on the brief), for appellee Federal Land Co.

George C. Hoff, Eden Prairie, MN, argued, for appellee Blomquist.

Joseph W. Anthony, Minneapolis, MN, argued (Norman Baer and Paul Floyd, on the brief), for Daly, et al.

Before MAGILL, Circuit Judge, HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and BEAM, Circuit Judge.


HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Bieter Company, a commercial developer, brought suit against the defendants — competing developers, the City of Eagan, and its past mayor — under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, as amended, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961-1968 (1988) ("RICO"), in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Finding that Bieter's allegations of bribery of city officials in furtherance of competing...

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