Acquire or maintain interest in or control of an enterprise (§ 1962(b))

AND · 18usc1962:acquisition

Under § 1962(b), the acquisition or maintenance of interest/control in the enterprise must occur *through* the pattern of racketeering activity or unlawful debt collection, and civil plaintiffs must show "acquisition injury" distinct from predicate-act injury.

Exact element source

to acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or control of

Source: docroot/ir/usc/title18.jsonl#title18_sec1962; Unicode character offsets [1380:1457] (end exclusive); SHA-256 6caae47f43b5ab0899b660616e298363bd36f9f540d915c2be11eb7126f5e27d.

All variants

Recorded DB variant labels, including zero-count variants
Variant	Description	Merits instance blocks	Distinct cases	Example cases (up to 3 per group)
Unspecified variant	No variant assigned in the database.	0 Satisfied 0; not satisfied 0; excluded context 1	0	No counted merits examples Excluded context examples: /f-supp/567/1146-01 — United States District Court for the District of New Jersey · 1983 — applied/merits

How courts decided this element

Annotation blocks, including explicitly excluded context
Case	Element	Holding and scope	Variant	Exact source quotations
/f-supp/567/1146-01 — United States District Court for the District of New Jersey · 1983	Acquire or maintain interest in or control of an enterprise (§ 1962(b))	not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / merits claim: (b),(c),(d) (b) pleaded but falls with the enterprise element; no separate analysis beyond noting a person cannot acquire an interest in himself.	Unspecified variant	No source quotation recorded for this block.

Court interpretations

interpretation

Consequently, since the enterprise in subsection (c) is not being acquired, it need not have a property interest that can be acquired nor an economic motive for engaging in illegal activity; it need only be an association in fact that engages in a pattern of racketeering activity.

/us/510/0249-01 — Supreme Court of the United States · 1994

Consequently, since the enterprise in subsection (c) is not being acquired, it need not have a property interest that can be acquired nor an economic motive for engaging in illegal activity; it need only be an association in fact that engages in a pattern of racketeering activity.

Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/us_510.jsonl#/us/510/0249-01; Unicode character offsets [12588:12869] (end exclusive); SHA-256 cb4e617ad929914e8013956e456c6d025b7f974213b9a4c541b1fdd0f9d49931.