Sandefur v. Commonwealth

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• holding that plaintiff failed to state a civil conspiracy claim where the complaint failed to provide details as to “when [the] agreement was reached or the contours of the agreement.”
• finding continuity requirement satisfied where members of the enterprise carried out predicate acts in 15 transactions over 18 months
• “Granting Defendants’ motion to strike would not preclude the court from applying any existing precedent or considering any other authority.”
• “[g]ranting Defendants' motion to strike would not preclude the court from applying any existing precedent or considering any other authority.”
• finding mayor’s delivery in his official capacity of religious messages at privately sponsored annual public commemorative events which featured Christian prayer practices had effect of City endorsement of Christianity
• “[B]ecause the core of a RICO civil conspiracy is an agreement to commit predicate acts, a RICO civil conspiracy complaint, at the very least, must allege specifically such an agreement.” (quoting Hecht v. Commerce Clearing House, Inc., 897 F.2d 21, 25 (2d Cir. 1990))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).