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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 207.390 (2026)

“Racketeering activity” defined

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NRS 207.390  “Racketeering activity” defined.  “Racketeering activity” means engaging in at least two crimes related to racketeering that have the same or similar pattern, intents, results, accomplices, victims or methods of commission, or are otherwise interrelated by distinguishing characteristics and are not isolated incidents, if at least one of the incidents occurred after July 1, 1983, and the last of the incidents occurred within 5 years after a prior commission of a crime related to racketeering.

      (Added to NRS by 1983, 1496)

     

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Cited in 20 cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1988–2022 · leading case: Siragusa v. Brown, 971 P.2d 801 (Nev. 1998).
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Siragusa v. Brown, 971 P.2d 801 (Nev. 1998). · cites it 14× “NRS 207.390 provides: "Racketeering activity" means engaging in at least two crimes related to racketeering that have the same or similar pattern, intents, results, accomplices, victims or methods of commission, or are otherwise interrelated by distinguishing characteristics and…”
Brown v. Kinross Gold, U.S.A., 378 F. Supp. 2d 1280 (D. Nev. 2005). · cites it 2× “” Nev.Rev.Stat. § 207.390. A plaintiff must plead the two crimes relating to racketeering with specificity.”
Hale v. Burkhardt, 764 P.2d 866 (Nev. 1988). · cites it 3× “NRS 207.390. “Crimes related to racketeering” are enumerated in NRS 207.”
G.K. Las Vegas Ltd. P'ship v. Simon Prop. Grp., Inc., 460 F. Supp. 2d 1246 (D. Nev. 2006). · cites it 2× “at 7 (quoting Nev.Rev.Stat. § 207.390). Individual Defendants state that the SAC fails to allege that Melvin or Herbert Simon committed two predicate acts under Nevada’s RICO statute, and that in order to pass muster under Nevada law, “[a] plaintiff must plead the two crimes…”
Century Sur. Co. v. Prince, 265 F. Supp. 3d 1182 (D. Nev. 2017). · cites it 2× “"'Racketeering activity,'" as will be discussed later, "means engaging in at least two crimes related to racketeering that have the same or similar pattern, intents, results, accomplices, victims or methods of commission, or are otherwise interrelated by distinguishing…”
State v. Hancock, 955 P.2d 183 (Nev. 1998). · cites it 2× “[2] Pursuant to NRS 207.390, "racketeering activity" means engaging in at least two crimes related to racketeering which are listed at NRS 207.”
Cummings v. Charter Hosp. of Las Vegas, Inc., 896 P.2d 1137 (Nev. 1995). “NRS 207.390 provides: “Racketeering activity” means engaging in at least two *646 crimes related to racketeering that have the same or similar pattern, intents, results, accomplices, victims or methods of commission, or are otherwise interrelated by distinguishing…”
Brown v. Fed. Sav. & Loan Ins., 777 P.2d 361 (Nev. 1989). “NRS 207.390. At trial, FSLIC suggested to the jury that the two racketeering-related crimes in which Brown and RDIL participated were forgery and perjury.”
In Re Stratosphere Corp. Sec. Litig., 66 F. Supp. 2d 1182 (D. Nev. 1999). · cites it 2× “See Nev.Rev.Stat. § 207.390 (1997) (“ ‘Racketeering activity’ means engaging in at least two crimes related to racketeering.”
Lescinsky v. Clark Cnty. Sch. Dist. (D. Nev. 2019). · cites it 2× “52 Lescinsky characterizes this activity as Detective Klemp advancing 15 his vendetta against him based on a belief that Lescinsky was not “fit to serve as [an] officer.”
Hansen v. Schaefer (D. Nev. 2020). · cites it 2× “18 2005) (citation omitted)); see also Nev. Rev. Stat. § 207.390 (defining racketeering activity as 19 “engaging in at least two crimes related to racketeering that have the same or similar pattern, 20 intents, results, accomplices, victims or methods of commission, or are…”
Motogolf.com, LLC v. Top Shelf Golf, LLC (D. Nev. 2021). · cites it 2× “” NRS § 207.390. “[C]rimes related to racketeering,” as relevant here, 14 means the commission or conspiracy to commit the crime of “[t]aking property from another 15 under circumstances not amounting to robbery.”
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