Cross v. Palo Alto-Mountain View Municipal Court

How courts have described this case

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• allegations of one fraudulent mailing to over 8,000 intended victims, and subsequent amended mailings, sufficient to plead a pattern
• “the substantive standards as to what must be proven in a criminal RICO prosecution also govern civil RICO actions.”
• the Second Circuit, foreshadowing H.J. Inc., rejected its prior practice of requiring “relatedness” and “continuity” in the enterprise element, shifting these requirements to the pattern element
• “What is required is that the complaint plead a basis from it could be inferred that the acts of racketeering activity were neither isolated nor sporadic.”
• “Congress’s goal in fashioning its definition of ‘pattern of racketeering activity’ was to exclude from the reach of RICO criminal acts that were merely ‘isolated’ or ‘sporadic’ ” in nature
• on remand to district court, RICO complaint must comply with 9(b) requirements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).