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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 JW GAMING DEVELOPMENT, LLC, Case No. 3:18-cv-02669-WHO

8 Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING TRIBAL

9 v. DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR

SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON COUNTS

10 ANGELA JAMES, et al., TWO THROUGH SIX 11 Defendants. Re: Dkt. No. 184, 195

12 13 Plaintiff JW Gaming argues that numerous individual defendants committed fraud and 14 violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) beginning in 2008 in an 15 effort to induce it to invest $5.38 million in the casino project of defendant Pinoleville Pomo 16 Nation (“the Tribe”1). Years later after JW Gaming had made the full investment, it entered into a 17 contract with the Tribe to memorialize the loan. On January 21, 2020, I determined that the Tribe 18 had breached the contract as a matter of law by failing to repay the money according to the terms 19 agreed to by the parties. I also denied the Tribal Defendants’2 motion for summary judgment on 20 all the claims against them. 21 Now the…