Cayman Exploration Corporation, a Delaware Corporation v. United Gas Pipe Line Company, a Delaware Corporation

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• “We recognize that the policy of simplicity in pleadings which underlies the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires a court to read Rule 9(b
• Rule 9(b) must be read in harmony with simplified notice pleading provisions of Rule 8
• “Every circuit which has examined this issue has found that Rule 9(b) is applicable to RICO predicate acts based on fraud”
• complaint did not allege horizontal price-fixing claim where plaintiff “did not identify the alleged conspirators, when or how they functioned or the nature and extent of [defendant’s] participation in the alleged conspiracy”
• failure “to allege any facts which would support an inference that the alleged actions by [defendants] would be contrary to their economic interests absent an agreement” warranted dismissal of horizontal price-fixing claim
• same; holding the district court did not abuse its discretion by disallowing further amendments

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