They engaged in "a pattern of racketeering activity, which included numerous acts of fraud," he wrote.
"Piedmont prison guards have engaged in a pattern of abusive incidents against immigration detainees," the complaint said.
Manne said the government had engaged in a "pattern of conduct" to attempt to avoid granting refugees protection visas.
In short, the Baltimore Police Department engaged in a pattern of stopping African-Americans without any real justification.
After all, the appeals court did affirm Judge Jackson's central finding, that Microsoft had engaged in a pattern of anticompetitive behavior to preserve the Windows monopoly.
The Justice Department investigation found that his department had "engaged in a pattern or practice of retaliating against individuals for exercising their First Amendment right to free speech".
Judge Sand ruled against Yonkers in 1985, saying that the city had engaged in a pattern of discrimination against some of its poorest, most vulnerable residents.
"Providian has engaged in a pattern of abusing consumers by misleading them," said Daniel P. Stipano, the director of the comptroller's enforcement and compliance division.
To establish liability of the defendants under RICO, the government had to prove that the companies engaged in a pattern of racketeering acts in a scheme to defraud.
The Court is unable to show that states have engaged in a pattern of unlawful conduct which warrants the remedy of opening state treasuries to private suits.
"By their own admission, we know that the C.F.O.'s have engaged in a pattern and practice of deception, where they had a duty to tell the truth".
