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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JW GAMING DEVELOPMENT, LLC, Case No. 3:18-cv-02669-WHO

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING TRIBAL

v. DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR

SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON COUNTS

ANGELA JAMES, et al., TWO THROUGH SIX Defendants. Re: Dkt. No. 184, 195

12 Plaintiff JW Gaming argues that numerous individual defendants committed fraud and violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) beginning in 2008 in an effort to induce it to invest $5.38 million in the casino project of defendant Pinoleville Pomo Nation (“the Tribe”1). Years later after JW Gaming had made the full investment, it entered into a contract with the Tribe to memorialize the loan. On January 21, 2020, I determined that the Tribe had breached the contract as a matter of law by failing to repay the money according to the terms agreed to by the parties. I also denied the Tribal Defendants’2 motion for summary judgment on all the claims against them. Now the…