Adkins v. Bently

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that plaintiff in RICO case involving fraud failed to state a claim where it merely made allegations of general misconduct by a group of defendants
• noting that the plaintiff’s “mail and wire fraud allegations do not rest upon misrepresentations” but only on the operation of the pyramid scheme, which “as a matter of law, constitutes a scheme to defraud in violation of the mail and wire fraud statutes”
• collecting cases and distinguishing between § 1962(d) conspiracy claims and § 1962(c) substantive claims
• directing plaintiffs to amend their claims “in order to present them in a manner that allows the Court to appropriately evaluate their sufficiency as to each individual Defendant”
• “[I]n order to sufficiently allege that a defendant violated § 1962(c), a plaintiff must allege that that particular defendant committed a pattern of predicate acts.”
• “Plaintiffs must plausibly allege that each Defendant was unjustly enriched at plaintiff’s expense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).