GM filed the racketeering suit in November 2019, alleging FCA bribed United Auto Workers (UAW) union officials over many years to corrupt the bargaining process and obtain benefits, which cost GM billions of dollars. .
“Even accepting GM’s theory as true, the causal chain between FCA’s bribes and GM’s harm is still too attenuated,” says the opinion of the three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals of the 6th United States Circuit.