racketeering activity.” 18 U.S.C. § 1962. “ ‘Racketeering activity’ is any act indictable under several provisions of Title 18 of the United States Code,” including extortion and mail and wire fraud. Rothman v. Vedder Park Management, 912 F.2d 315, 316 (9th Cir. 1990). Extortion is defined as “the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.” 18 U.S.C. § 1951. Plaintiffs’ claim that Delta has engaged in a pattern of extortion fails because Delta had a legal right under the Agent Reporting Agreement (“ARC Agreement”) to collect damages for ticketing violations through the issuance of debit memos. See U.S. v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396, 400, 93 S.Ct. 1007, 35 L.Ed.2d 379 (1973) (<HOLDING>); U.S. v. Dischner, 974 F.2d 1502, 1516 (9th
holding that if official has violated clearly established law he is entitled to qualified immunity only if reasonable official could have believed conduct was lawful holding that a threat is only wrongful if the alleged extortionist has no lawful claim to that property holding that if the underlying conduct is wrongful only by virtue of the labor laws then the rico claim is preempted holding that an evicted plaintiff has no legal interest in property and therefore has no standing to bring a cercla claim holding survivors entitled only to per person coverage since wrongful death claim was only one claim