Zhou

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANBANG GROUP HOLDINGS CO. Case No. 23-cv-00998-VC LIMITED, et al.,

Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING MOTIONS TO

DISMISS

v. Re: Dkt. Nos. 66, 89 HAIBIN ZHOU, et al., Defendants.

The motions to dismiss the claims against Yan Zhao and the Law Office of Ning Ye are denied. Each defendant must file an answer within 14 days of this ruling. This ruling assumes the reader is familiar with the facts, the applicable legal standard, and the arguments made by the parties. Failure to state a claim. The complaint does enough to state RICO claims against both defendants. As the complaint tells it, the defendants took part in an organized scheme to harass and extort the plaintiffs. Part of that scheme, the plaintiffs allege, involved a pattern of lawsuits seeking to confirm fake arbitration awards, claim false ownership over the plaintiffs’ properties, and cloud title to those properties. Yan Zhao allegedly filed a number of these lawsuits and appeals. See Dkt. No. 1 ¶¶ 8, 10, 20, 54, 143–46, 157–62, 166–75. And the Law Office of Ning Ye allegedly served as counsel in some of these efforts. See Dkt. No. 1 ¶¶ 9–10,…