Linda Grubbs v. Sheakley Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a “single eight-month scheme to move the Tri-Serve clients to Sheakley with the single victim of Grubbs cannot meet the standard for closed- or open-ended RICO liability”
• holding plaintiff’s RICO claim “cannot meet the standard for closed- or open-ended RICO liability” where alleged scheme was short-term and involved a single defendant
• noting that a plaintiff must show “some causal link between the challenged statements and harm to the plaintiff” in pleading a false advertising claim
• defining “material” in the false advertising context as likely to “influence the deceived consumer’s purchasing decisions”
• declining “to adopt the requirement that the parties be in competition” because the Lanham Act “nowhere requires such a showing”
• finding “the very act of sending an e-mail creates the interstate commerce nexus necessary for federal jurisdiction,” as to federal false advertising claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).