Sanchez v. Triple-S Management, Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that a court may enter summary judgment sua sponte “before any discovery had taken place, where the decision was based on legal conclusions independent of any potentially available evidence”
• explaining that Becher discovery was not available where “any communications transmitted in furtherance of a fraud scheme necessarily must be (or must have been) in Plaintiffs' possession”
• finding witnesses’ statements that defendants acted “in furtherance of a scheme” insufficient to avoid summary judgment on that issue, given a “complete lack of specificity”
• noting instance in which summary judgment was properly entered sua sponte “before any discovery had taken place, where the decision was based on legal conclusions independent of any potentially available evidence”
• “plaintiffs cannot press a RICO claim based on attempts at extortion that did not succeed in harming them”
• “The plaintiffs cannot press a RICO claim based on attempts at extortion that did not succeed in harming them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).