Medallion Television Enterprises, Inc., John Ettlinger v. Selectv of California, Inc., James Levitus, Lionel Schaen, Richard Kulis

How courts have described this case

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• stating that \[t]he presence or absence of continuity among the acts is the distinguishing factor in our cases\
• concluding no pattern of racketeering existed where case involved \single alleged fraud with a single victim\
• finding that predicate acts designed to bring about a single event (the signing of a television contract) did not pose a threat of continuity
• finding no continuity where there was 23 no threat of continuing activity and the “case involved but a single alleged fraud with a single 24 victim”
• where fraud was a joint venture to obtain broadcast rights, once the rights were obtained the threat ended
• in a pre- 11 H.J. case, stating that “[w]hether the predicate acts alleged or proven are sufficiently related is 12 seldom at issue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).