145 results for 'nos:"Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits"'.
J. Garaufis grants Allstate's motion for a preliminary injunction and issues a stay on 40 separate pending arbitration proceedings filed by a group of health care providers whom the insurer alleges participated in a no-fault insurance fraud scheme. The insurer successfully argues that, without a stay, the proceedings could result in dozens of inconsistent awards and ultimately make it difficulty to obtain a favorable ruling on its claim for declaratory relief, which seeks a declaration that the providers have no right to receive reimbursement for any unpaid bills they submitted previously.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Garaufis, Filed On: January 8, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv6572, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Insurance, Injunction
J. Kenney grants a company’s petition for attorney fees in this racketeering case in which the firm alleged that the sued company orchestrated a yearslong fraudulent scheme involving “submitting false invoices on construction projects in order to bilk money from banks, the federal government, and subcontractors.” The request for $855,660 in attorney fees for 2,159.88 hours of work is reasonable.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Kenney, Filed On: January 2, 2024, Case #: 2:21cv3384, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Attorney Fees, Racketeering
J. Garaufis grants GEICO’s motion for a preliminary injunction and issues a stay on 43 separate pending arbitration proceedings filed by a group of health care providers whom the insurer alleges participated in a no-fault insurance fraud scheme. GEICO successfully argues that, without a stay, the proceedings could result in dozens of inconsistent awards and ultimately make it difficulty to obtain a favorable ruling on its claim for declaratory relief, which seeks a declaration that the providers have no right to receive reimbursement for any unpaid bills they submitted previously.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Garaufis, Filed On: January 2, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv7532, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Arbitration, Insurance, Racketeering
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J. Engelmayer grants defendants' Meta, Alphabet, and Nike's request for an order declaring the plaintiff a vexatious litigant and enjoining him from filing any civil action against them in federal court. The plaintiff's proliferation of frivolous lawsuits asserting fantastical claims against the companies over nine years, none of which cleared the motion to dismiss stage, firmly establish that he is a vexatious litigant who will continue to abuse the judicial process.
Court: USDC Southern District of New York, Judge: Engelmayer, Filed On: December 5, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv7000, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Civil Procedure, Sanctions
J. Wicks grants a motion to disqualify an attorney from acting as defense counsel for a group of companies named in a civil lawsuit brought by a series of car dealerships that alleges an illegal racketeering scheme to setup a separate group of car dealerships by stealing the dealers’ funds, employees and trade secrets. The court finds the attorney is barred under the advocate-witness rule, as he is a necessary witness who will be called upon to provide testimony regarding acts of fraud that he allegedly committed in furtherance of the scheme.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Wicks, Filed On: December 1, 2023, Case #: 2:23cv6188, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Trade Secrets, Racketeering
J. Weisman partially grants a trust beneficiary’s motion to compel the production of documents by other trust beneficiaries — her siblings — regarding 19 law firms and businesses in which the trust’s deceased creator held his real estate investments. As laid out in the ruling in more detail, the court compels production of some documents related to these entities, but denies the beneficiary’s request for other documents.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Weisman, Filed On: November 29, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv5756, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Real Estate, Trusts, Racketeering
J. Barker grants the real estate owners' motion to dismiss, ruling the investors' vague allegations of wire fraud, which include mention of hundreds of phone calls but no specific details regarding alleged fraudulent valuations of various properties, are insufficient to satisfy the heightened pleading standard of their RICO claim.
Court: USDC Northern District of Ohio, Judge: Barker, Filed On: November 17, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv2183, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Racketeering
J. Vyskocil denies the investment firm's motion for sanctions against the consultant firm's former counsel, Gibson Dunn, in a suit alleging the consultant was hired by the nation of Qatar to hack into the investment firm's principal's email servers to smear his reputation. The firm reasonably believed a partner's claim that she did not learn any confidential information regarding issues relevant to this action while serving as a Senior Assistant Special Counsel in Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller's office. Therefore, it found no conflict of interest that would bar its representation of the consultant firm.
Court: USDC Southern District of New York, Judge: Vyskocil, Filed On: November 15, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv11861, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Civil Procedure, Racketeering
J. Kuo declines to issue sanctions against a Southeast Asian broadcasting company for deleting an investor’s corporate email account, as well as for failing to preserve the hard drive of an accountant’s computer after it had crashed and for later allegedly altering financial documents after they were provided through other means. The investor alleges the company refuses to acknowledge his 50% interest, which he was supposed to receive in exchange for a $2 million investment. Google, the company’s email service provider, restored a significant portion of the relevant emails upon receiving a subpoena, and the employee fails to prove any information in the financial documents were altered.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Kuo, Filed On: November 9, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv4216, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Evidence, Sanctions
J. Domenico dismisses a motivational speaker's RICO and trademark claims contending a woman repeatedly stalked, harassed, and defamed him online because he failed to prove she conspired to deprive him of financial gain or to specify which marks had been infringed.
Court: USDC Colorado, Judge: Domenico, Filed On: November 1, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv742, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Trademark, Defamation, Racketeering