Re: Coursepacks

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Dan L. Burk <burkdanl[_at_]shu.edu> wrote:
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> On 06/25/98, Vance R. Koven <vrkoven[_at_]world.std.com> wrote:
> >
> > Isn't someone who tries to sell that to which the purchaser has a
> > free right guilty of something called "running a protection racket"?
> > That is, insurance against the activities of the insurance salesman?
>
> My, I couldn't have put it better myself. Yes. Exactly.

So the next question is, isn't someone engaged in a protection racket, if not vulnerable to criminal prosecution by state or federal authorities (for political reasons), at the very least vulnerable to a civil RICO action?

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