Melissa Simpson v. Sanderson Farms, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a defendant’s racketeering activity must “proximately cause[] the injury”
• affirming the dismissal of a complaint for failure to establish essential elements of the asserted cause of action
• dismissing similar claims for failure to sufficiently plead RICO injury or proximate cause
• finding sufficient a common purpose of making money by hiring undocumented immigrants
• “[Plaintiffs] have not, for example, offered or even estimated the wages paid by any comparable poultry processing plant employers in the relevant market....”
• “[T]he plaintiffs cannot plausibly establish proximate cause merely by tacking a eonclusory allegation onto their high-level market claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).