The following excerpt is from Welk Resort Grp. Inc. v. Reed Hein & Assocs., LLC, Case No.: 3:17-cv-01499-L-AGS (S.D. Cal. 2019):
To state a claim for violation of 18 U.S.C. 1962(c), the plaintiff must show that "the defendant's violation not only was a 'but for' cause of his injury, but was the proximate cause as well." Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp., 547 U.S. 451, 457 (2006) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). "When a court evaluates a RICO claim for proximate causation, the central question it must ask is whether the alleged violation
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