enterprise

A business venture or undertaking. William Buchanan Foundation v. Shepperd, Tex.Civ.App., 283 S.W.2d 325, 333.

As used in the anti-racketeering statute (RICO), it includes any individual, partnership Corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity. 18 U.S.C.A. No. 1961(4).

Additionally, it must be an ongoing organization, and an entity separate from the pattern of activity in which it engages. Town of Kearny v. Hudson Meadows Urban Renewal Corp., D.C.N.J., 648 F.Supp. 1412, 1416.

See also RICO laws. To find an "enterprise" under the Fair Labor Standards Act, there must be related activities, unified operation or common control, and common business purpose. Brennan v. Arnheim & Neely, Inc., U.S.Pa., 410 U.S. 512, 93 S.Ct. 1138, 1142, 35 L.Ed.2d 463.

See 29 U.S. C.A. No. 203(r).

See also common enterprise

- joint enterprise

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Imposition of liability upon each member in industry who manufactures or produces product which causes injury or harm to a consumer and apportionment of liability of each member of industry by reference to that member's share of market for product. Liability-Namn v. Charles E. Frosst & Co. Inc., 178 N.J. Super. 19, 427 A.2d 1121, 1129.

Such theory (also known as "industry wide liability"), shifts responsibility to industry for causing injury, because of concert of action by manufacturers through their trade association or their collective action, where specific injury-causing product cannot be identified. Mulcahy v. Eli Lilly & Co., Iowa, 386 N.W.2d 67, 72.

A defendant may exculpate itself by proving it did not manufacture the particular product at issue. Shackil v. Lederle Laboratories, App.Div., 219 NJ.Super. 601, 530 A.2d 1287, 1299.

Term also refers to criminal liability imposed on a corporation, partnership, unincorporated association, or other artificial "person." See e.g., Model Penal Code No. 2.07

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