United States v. Soto-Beniquez

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• noting that Rule 9(b) “applies to civil RICO fraud 16 claims”
• no Brady violation when details of plea agreement were not disclosed because cross-examination showed that witness was receiving favorable treatment from government in return for testimony
• “[A]t least where the CCE count incorporates by reference predicate offenses charged elsewhere in the indictment, failure to list predicate offenses in the CCE count itself is not reversible error.”
• “A state law claim is part of the same case or controversy when 24 |\\it shares a common nucleus of operative fact with the federal claims and the state and 25 federal claims would normally be tried together.”
• sua sponte dismissal pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(b) 15 proper sanction in cases where a plaintiff is notified of deficiencies in complaint 16 and is given “the opportunity to amend [the complaint] or be dismissed” but the 17 plaintiff “[does] nothing”
• noting PTO’s expertise in addressing the estoppel issue

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