Miracle Automotive, Inc. D/B/A Miracle Body and Paint v. Geico County Mutual Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that complaint sufficiently alleged facts suggesting that defendant could raise prices without causing consumers to drive elsewhere for full-service supermarkets
• noting that Professional Real Estate’s “exacting two-step test” puts a heavy thumb on the scale in favor of the party who has had a claim made against it
• noting that Professional Real Estate’s “exacting two-step test” puts a heavy thumb on the scale in favor of the party who has had a claim made against it
• finding that the test articulated in California Motor is applicable in cases involving a series of filings and the test articulated in PREJ is applicable in cases involving a single filing
• explaining that there is no minimum number of cases to qualify as a pattern or series when determining what constitutes “sham litigation,” but four could qualify as “a series of filings”
• noting that defendants filed serial administrative complaints with agencies that had no jurisdiction, then repeatedly amended their filings without a good reason, and distinguishing cases “[w]here there is only one alleged sham petition,” as here

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).