Abstract
In Chevron Corp. v. Steven Donziger, the Southern District of New York granted Chevron an injunction against Donziger under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, preventing the enforcement of an Ecuadorean judgment against it in the United States. This Note discusses the circuit court split on whether injunctive relief may be granted in a civil RICO suit, arguing that injunctive relief is an available remedy within the statute’s plain meaning, legislative intent, and evolving jurisprudence of civil RICO. The Note applies the Donziger interpretation of RICO to a case of a similarly corrupted judgment, Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., Inc., to illustrate this argument.
Recommended Citation
Anna Hanke,
Equitable Relief For Private RICO Plaintiffs: Using Donziger To Remedy Courthouse Corruption,
26 J. L. & Pol'y
311
(2018).
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