{"id":167118,"date":"2026-11-09T15:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T23:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/09\/federal-judge-rejects-categorical-rule-shielding-litigation-conduct-from-rico-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T23:05:15","slug":"federal-judge-rejects-categorical-rule-shielding-litigation-conduct-from-rico-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/09\/federal-judge-rejects-categorical-rule-shielding-litigation-conduct-from-rico-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Rejects Categorical Rule Shielding Litigation Conduct From RICO Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

The suit alleges Simmons Hanly Conroy and related entities and lawyers violated the RICO Act and committed mail and wire fraud by transmitting fraudulent discovery and pleadings and perjured testimony as part of the broader RICO scheme of filing baseless asbestos litigation.<\/p>\n

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The suit alleges Simmons Hanly Conroy and related entities and lawyers violated the RICO Act and committed mail and wire fraud by transmitting fraudulent discovery and pleadings and perjured testimony as part of the broader RICO scheme of filing baseless asbestos litigation.<\/p>\n

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The suit alleges Simmons Hanly Conroy and related entities and lawyers violated the RICO Act and committed mail and wire fraud by transmitting fraudulent discovery and pleadings and perjured testimony as part of the broader RICO scheme of filing baseless asbestos litigation. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The suit alleges Simmons Hanly Conroy and related entities and lawyers violated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}