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Podcast: Supreme Court Decision Syllabus (SCOTUS Podcast)
Episode: Yegiazaryan v. Smagin (Jurisdiction / RICO)
Description: Send us Fan MailIn Yegiazaryan v. Smagin, the Supreme Court reviewed whether the United States district court has jurisdiction over a Civil RICO claim where the plaintiff is a foreign national (who resides in Russia) who has pleaded an injury based on his "his efforts to execute on a California judgment in California against a California resident were foiled by a pattern of racketeering activity that largely occurred in California and was designed to subvert enforcement of the judgment there. " Held: A plaintiff has sufficiently alleged a domestic injury when the circumstances surrounding the injury took p...