Max Sound Corporation (MAXD)

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The Santa Clara case has everything to do with the RICO claim. You will recall that the purported leading expert and author of the RICO statute, Blakey, briefly saved the day in Santa Clara last year by suggesting the issue of standing could be split off from the merits of the RICO claim. He proposed litigating standing first.

The issue of standing to bring a RICO claim includes among other requirements that the plaintiff be the plaintiff on a RICO case. The plaintiff here said that his RICO case is based on trade secrets misappropriation.

If the plaintiff loses the trade secrets case, he loses standing to bring a RICO case.