Tafflin v. Levitt

Tafflin v. Levitt
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 27, 1989 Decided January 22, 1990
Full case name	Tafflin, et al. v. Levitt, et al.
Citations	493 U.S. 455 (more) 110 S. Ct. 792; 107 L. Ed. 2d 887
Case history
Prior	865 F.2d 595 (4th Cir. 1989) (affirming federal district court); cert. granted, 490 U.S. 1089 (1989).
Holding
State courts have concurrent jurisdiction to decide civil claims brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy
Case opinions
Majority	O'Connor, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	White
Concurrence	Scalia, joined by Kennedy
Laws applied
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968

Tafflin v. Levitt, 493 U.S. 455 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court case^[1] in which the Court held that state courts have concurrent jurisdiction to decide civil claims brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).^[2]