Mark Vernon v. Assurance Forensic Accounting, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting a statute of frauds defense to a breach of contract claim because “[a]lthough unlikely, it is possible . . . [that] the parties' contract was capable of being performed within one year of its making”
• plaintiff injured “by reason of” criminal racketeering activities must show that the defendant who engaged in the illegal racketeering activities proximately caused the 10 plaintiff’s injuries
• “To assert a civil claim based on the Georgia RICO statute, the plaintiff must demonstrate that . . . the defendant engaged in at least two predicate acts of racketeering activity.”
• applying Williston to authorize a claim for breach of contract
• “The general rule is that actionable fraud cannot be predicated upon promises to perform some act in the future. Nor does actionable fraud result from a mere failure to perform promises made. Otherwise, any breach of a contract would amount to fraud.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).