Richard M. Perlman and Perlman Marketplace Investors v. Samuel Zell

How courts have described this case

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

• Plaintiff lost on the central issue in the case, RICO, and only prevailed on state law claims
• “Breach of contract is not fraud, and a series of broken promises therefore is not a pattern of fraud.”
• “Sometimes the evidence shows outright lies and a plan not to keep one’s promises—enough of them to meet [RICO’s] continuity-plus-relationship formula for a ‘pattern.’”
• “The word ‘fraud’ in the mail-fraud statute means deliberate, material misrepresentations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).