Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Williams, et al.

Case Updates

The United States Supreme Court vacated the Eleventh Circuit decision permitting RICO liability and remanded the case in light of its simultaneous decision in Anza v. Ideal Steel.

The Supreme Court granted review to consider whether a corporation can form an “enterprise” under the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”) where the alleged combination exists solely of the corporation itself and its third party recruiters. In its brief, NCLC argued that the statute’s plain language does not bear such a result and that treble damages liability should not factor where the corporation is merely using third party agents to perform integral corporate functions.