Sandra Day O'Connor

“ Likewise, in Agency Holding we were concerned with "borrowing," in light of legislative silence on the issue, an appropriate statute of limitations period from an "analogous" statute. 483 U.S., at 146, 107 S.Ct., at 2762. Under such circumstances, we found it appropriate to borrow the statute of limitations from the Clayton Act. Id., at 152, 107 S.Ct., at 2765. In this case, by contrast, where the issue is whether jurisdiction is exclusive or concurrent, we are not free to add content to a statute via analogies to other statutes unless the legislature has specifically endorsed such action. ”

“ Petitioners predict that if state courts are permitted to interpret federal criminal statutes, they will create a body of precedent relating to those statutes and that the federal courts will consequently lose control over the orderly and uniform development of federal criminal law. ”

“ Moreover, contrary to petitioners' fears, we have full faith in the ability of state courts to handle the complexities of civil RICO actions, particularly since many RICO cases involve asserted violations of state law, such as state fraud claims, over which state courts presumably have greater expertise. See 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (1) (A) (listing state law offenses constituting predicate acts) ; Gulf Offshore, supra, 453 U.S., at 484, 101 S.Ct., at 2878 ("State judges have greater expertise in applying" laws "whose governing rules are borrowed from state law") ”

“ BNA, Civil RICO Report, Vol. 2, No. 44, p. 7 (Apr. 14, 1987) (54.9% of all RICO cases after Sedima involved "common law fraud" and another 18% involved either "nonsecurities fraud" or "theft or conversion") . To hold otherwise would not only denigrate the respect accorded coequal sovereigns, but would also ignore our "consistent history of hospitable acceptance of concurrent jurisdiction," Dowd Box, 368 U.S., at 508, 82 S.Ct., at 523. ”

“ Finally, we note that, far from disabling or frustrating federal interests, " [p] ermitting state courts to entertain federal causes of action facilitates the enforcement of federal rights." Gulf Offshore, 453 U.S., at 478, n. 4, 101 S.Ct., at 2875, n. 4; see also Dowd Box, supra, 368 U.S. at 514, 82 S.Ct., at 526. (conflicts deriving from concurrent jurisdiction are "not necessarily unhealthy") . Thus, to the extent that Congress intended RICO to serve broad remedial purposes, see, e.g., Pub.L. 91-452, § 904 (a) , 84 Stat. ”

“ Owen, 864 F.2d 1280, 1286 (CA6 1988) (exclusive jurisdiction) ; VanderWeyst v. First State Bank of Benson, 425 N.W.2d 803, 812 (Minn.) (expressing "serious reservations" about assuming concurrent RICO jurisdiction) , cert. ”