POOLE, Circuit Judge:
In passing the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq., Congress created a wide array of novel civil and criminal weapons to use against crime and corruption. We must decide whether in doing so, Congress expressed a clear intent to abrogate legislators' common-law immunity. We hold that it did not.
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This appeal involves a civil RICO suit by an aggrieved citizen, Edward...
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