Loomer
Loomer v. Zuckerberg
Opinion
Opinion
facts to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.” Bell Atlantic Corp. v.
Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007). We affirm.
Loomer alleges two claims against the Defendants: a substantive civil RICO
violation and a RICO conspiracy violation. Loomer alleges that all Defendants are
2 part of the “Community Media Enterprise,” a “wide-ranging conspiracy . . . to
unlawfully censor conservative voices and interfere with American elections.”
I
The district court correctly concluded that Loomer failed to state plausible
RICO claims.
A
A substantive civil RICO claim has five elements: “(1) conduct (2) of an
enterprise (3) through a pattern (4) of racketeering activity (known as ‘predicate
acts’) (5) causing injury to the plaintiff’s ‘business or property.’” Grimmett v.
Brown, 75 F.3d 506, 510 (9th Cir. 1996) (citing 18 U.S.C. §§ 1964(c), 1962(c)).
1 This action is Loomer’s fourth lawsuit about this alleged conspiracy. See Freedom Watch, Inc. v. Google, Inc., 368 F. Supp. 3d 30, 34 (D.D.C. 2019) (explaining that Loomer and a nonprofit claimed that Facebook, Twitter, and other technology companies have “work[ed] together to ‘intentionally and willfully suppress…