Brasco v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a period of nine months is not a substantial period of time and cataloguing Seventh Circuit cases and time frames
• writing that duration “is perhaps the closest thing we have to a bright-line continuity test”
• finding that the defendants’ alleged scheme of diverting customers and employees away from the plaintiff did not satisfy continuity under either an open- ended or closed-ended analysis
• stating that Rule 9(b) applies to plaintiffs alleging civil fraud in a RICO complaint
• affirming dismissal of RICO fraud allegations because plaintiffs failed to identify the time, place, and content of the communications alleged to the predicate acts perpetrating the fraud
• criticizing plaintiffs for “persist[ing] in trying to fit a square peg in a round hole by squeezing garden- variety business disputes into civil RICO actions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).