Word of Faith World Outreach Center Church, Inc. v. Sawyer

How courts have described this case

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• holding there was no pattern of racketeering activity where “[t]he alleged acts were all part of a single, lawful endeavor — namely the production of television news reports concerning a particular subject”
• finding Plaintiff failed to show continuity where all the alleged predicate acts involving the production of television news programs were part of a single, lawful endeavor
• “Pleading the mere existence of lawsuits is not the same as pleading the facts that demonstrate predicate illegal acts as the defendant’s regular way of doing business.”
• alleged predicate acts occurring during the production and airing of a television news program failed to plead a “continuity of racketeering activity, or its threat”
• “Essential to the claim . . . is that the conspiracy be motivated by racial animus.”
• no continuity where alleged predicate acts are part of a single, lawful endeavor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).