Feld Entertainment, Inc. v. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, et al., No. 07-1532 (EGS), 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 93863 (Jul. 9, 2012)

(plaintiff can proceed with Racketeering and Conspiracy (RICO) claims and claims under Virginia Conspiracy Act against defendants and their lawyers; plaintiff determined to have made sufficient claims that victims of defendants' RICO violations were the plaintiff and members of the public that may have been improperly induced to made donations to the defendants based on the lawsuit; case involves long court battle over whether plaintiff violated Endangered Species Act by using Asian elephants in circuses put on by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus; after nine years of litigation and six-week non-jury trial, court determined that individual plaintiff lacked standing and was a paid plaintiff whose sole source of income was from defendants).