U.S. Concord, Inc. v. Harris Graphics Corp., 757 F.Supp. 1053, 1061 (N.D.Cal.1991) (“The Ninth Circuit has held that allegations of predicate acts under RICO must comply with Rule 9(b)’s specificity requirements,” citing Schreiber Distributing Co. v. Serv-Well Furniture Co., 806 F.2d 1393, 1400-01 (9th Cir.1986)). Rule 9(b) requires that a plaintiff allege the time, place, and manner of each predicate act, the nature of the scheme involved, and the role of each defendant in the scheme. Lancaster Community Hospital, 940 F.2d at 405 (stating that a RICO plaintiff must allege the time, place and manner of each act of fraud, and the role of each defendant in the fraud); see also Advocacy Organization for Patients and Providers v. Auto Club Ins. Ass’n., 176 F.3d 315, 322 (6th Cir.1999) (<HOLDING>); see generally Gotham, Print, Inc. v. American
holding that in the context of mail and wire fraud a plaintiff must have justifiably relied to his detriment on the defendants material misrepresentations holding that a plaintiff satisfied rule 9b by pleading which machines were the subject of alleged fraudulent transactions and the nature and subject of the alleged misrepresentations holding that as to each predicate act the plaintiff must allege the time place and contents of the misrepresentations holding that a rico plaintiff must allege at a minimum the time place and content of the alleged misrepresentations on which he or she relied the fraudulent scheme the fraudulent intent of the defendants and the injury resulting from the fraud recognizing that where the relationship to the mailing and the alleged fraudulent scheme is at best highly attenuated a rico claim based thereupon will be dismissed