MOORE v. PAINEWEBBER, INC.

Docket No. 98-9426.

189 F.3d 165 (1999)

Robert L. MOORE and Jeannette S. Parry, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PAINEWEBBER, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 20, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Labaton, Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow LLP, New York, N.Y. (Joel Bernstein and James W. Johnson, of counsel); Frederick J. Keitel, III, Keitel and Keitel, Palm Beach, FL; Michael Hanzman, Hanzman Criden Korge Hertzberg & Chaykin, Miami, FL; Marc H. Edelson, Hoffman & Edelson, Doylestown, PA; Ira Neil Richards, Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards, LLC, Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Steven M. Barna, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, N.Y. (Jeffrey M. Wintner, Maria L. Sachs, Lara Adamsons, of counsel); Hannah Berkowitz, Jacqueline O. LiCalzi, PaineWebber Inc., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, CALABRESI, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.


CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs, Robert L. Moore and Jeannette S. Parry, claim that PaineWebber, Inc., the defendant, disguised a life insurance policy as an investment package similar to an Individual Retirement Account ("IRA"), thereby tricking them into buying life insurance with funds that they would otherwise have used for IRAs or similar investments. Moore and Parry brought suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"),...

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