856 F. Supp. 1178 - Crowe v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The First, Second, Fourth, Seventh and Ninth Circuits employ an injury-based accrual rule. Under this method, a civil RICO cause of action accrues at the time plaintiff discovered or should have discovered his injury. The Third, Eighth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits have, on the other hand, adopted an accrual rule which applies the general discovery rule to both the pattern element and the injury element of RICO. In other words, these courts find that a civil RICO cause of action does not accrue until the plaintiff discovers or should have discovered the source of his injury and that the injury is part of a pattern.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 957 F. Supp. 1427 - Porter v. Charter Medical Corp.

2. “[T]he limitations period for a civil RICO claim runs from the date the plaintiff knew or should have known that the elements of the civil RICO cause of action existed unless, as a part of the same pattern of racketeering activity there is further injury to the plaintiff or further predicate acts occur which are part of the same pattern, in which case the accrual period shall run from the time when the plaintiff knew or should have known of the last injury or the last predicate act which is part of the same pattern of racketeering activity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 957 F. Supp. 1427 - Porter v. Charter Medical Corp.