Leviathan Corp

question 42

Essay

Leviathan Corp.has filed a civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)lawsuit against NBS Bros. ,an accounting firm.NBS has asked the court to dismiss the case for two reasons: first,Leviathan did not allege,and cannot prove,that NBS is connected in any way with organized crime,as that term is customarily used;and second,Leviathan did not allege,and cannot prove,that NBS was criminally convicted of a predicate offense.Should NBS succeed with these arguments? Explain your reasoning.

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Definitions:

Optical Activity

The property of chiral molecules to rotate plane-polarized light, a phenomenon measured using polarimetry.

Enantiomer

Molecules that are mirror images of each other but cannot be overlaid onto each other, much like left and right hands.

Meso Compound

A type of stereochemical isomer with multiple stereocenters that is superimposable on its mirror image, making it achiral despite containing chiral centers.

Diastereomers

Isomers that have a different spatial orientation of atoms but are not mirror reflections of each other.