Palmer v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co‪.‬

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, David D. Palmer and Ok Sun Palmer, appeal from the district courts dismissal with prejudice of one count (or claim) based upon 18 U.S.C. § 1962, et seq., the so-called RICO statute, of a twelve-count complaint filed against an insurance company, a number of health care-related companies, a law firm, and a number of individuals. The district court determined that it lacked "subject matter jurisdiction over the balance of plaintiffs complaint" after dismissing the RICO claim, the only federal claim in plaintiffs 27-page complaint, and it thus dismissed the entire action as to all defendants.