Mathon v. Marine Midland Bank, N.A.

How courts have described this case

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• dismissing RICO conspiracy claim where plaintiff alleged generally “conspiratorial acts,” “conspiratorial manner,” “conspiratorial method,” and “conspiratorial pattern”
• permitting leave to replead where court could not “determine that the plaintiffs would not, under any circumstances, be able to allege a civil RICO conspiracy”
• “a meritorious defense is established by Rule 55 standards by setting forth denials and defenses in an answer.”
• “real prejudice is evidenced by the loss of evidence, the unavailability of witnesses or roadblocks to discovery.”
• “this ease involves a single transaction involving one alleged victim, albeit two persons, one real estate transaction, a limited goal, no threatened future action, and no allegation of long-term criminal conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).