Williams v. Affinion Grp., LLC

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that RICO conspiracy claims fail when the “alleged conspiracy involved an agreement to commit the same substantive RICO violations [the Court has] deemed insufficiently pled”
• rejecting RICO con- 22 spiracy where “[t]he alleged conspiracy involved an agreement to commit the same substantive 23 RICO violations we have deemed insufficiently pled”
• dismissing the plaintiffs’ conspiracy claims because they had not stated a substantive RICO claim
• affirming dismissal of RICO conspiracy claim where substantive RICO violations were insufficiently pled, and plaintiffs did not allege any further acts that, if carried out, would have satisfied RICO’s requirement of a pattern of racketeering
• affirming dismissal of RICO conspiracy claim based on “agreement to commit the same substantive RICO violations . . . deemed insufficiently pled, [where] plaintiffs have not alleged any further acts that, if carried out, would have satisfied RICO’s requirement of a pattern of racketeering”
• “The complaint here lacks the particularized allegation of an underlying ‘scheme to defraud’ animated by a material misrepresentation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Second Circuit· 2020-09-22· cited 93×
• Essex Ins. Co. v. William Kramer & Associates, LLC
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2019-04-23· cited 23×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Neder v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-10· cited 5,157×
• Schmuck v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 1,390×
• McNally v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-24· cited 1,314×
• Salinas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-12-02· cited 1,039×
• Mills v. Polar Molecular Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1993-12-17· cited 848×
• Lundy v. Catholic Health System of Long Island Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2013-03-01· cited 650×
• Michael E. Moss v. Morgan Stanley Inc., E. Jacques Courtois, Jr., Adrian Antoniu, and James M. Newman, Morgan Stanley Inc. And James M. Newman
  Second Circuit· 1983-09-09· cited 535×
• Fink v. Time Warner Cable
  Second Circuit· 2013-05-06· cited 431×
• United States v. Warshak
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-12-14· cited 376×
• United States v. Edmund M. Autuori
  Second Circuit· 2000-05-12· cited 288×
• Time Warner Cable, Inc. v. DirecTV, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2007-08-09· cited 231×
• New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Cuomo
  Second Circuit· 2015-10-19· cited 172×
• Cofacredit, S.A. v. Windsor Plumbing Supply Co.
  Second Circuit· 1999-08-03· cited 159×
• Benjamin Berger v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-02-03· cited 92×
• United States v. Joseph Van Dyke, III
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-09-13· cited 90×
• Federal Trade Commission v. Sterling Drug, Inc., Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, Inc., and Thompson-Koch Company
  Second Circuit· 1963-05-06· cited 72×
• Anatian v. Coutts Bank (Switzerland) Ltd.
  Second Circuit· 1999-09-20· cited 62×
• United States v. Larry Sessa, Gregory Scarpa, Jr.
  Second Circuit· 1997-09-09· cited 33×
• United States Ex Rel. O'Donnell v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2016-05-23· cited 33×
• Bowring v. Sapporo U.S.A., Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2017-02-10· cited 28×