Brian Bowen’s lawsuit against Adidas alleging civil RICO has been dismissed, with prejudice.
Federal Judge Joe Anderson’s ruling can still be appealed, but he was fairly strong in his language, writing that there was not enough evidence to show conspiracy on the part of Adidas and that the bar for this sort of lawsuit was high.
From his ruling: “... while Plaintiff devotes most of his arguments to these undisputed facts, they are not relevant to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act’s (“RICO”) statutory standing requirements. That a fraud has been committed, and that Plaintiff has been negatively impacted by that fraud, does not suffice to confer standing to seek treble damages under civil RICO.