It recognizes that a failure to prove other predicates to presumed reliance will prevent class certification.

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Sound foreign policy predicates on peace, but not pacifism, strength, but not aggression, and expanded commercial relations.

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As the face of the indictment reveals, the only RICO predicates that occurred within the five-year limitations period applicable to most federal crimes were those that related to the alleged kickbacks demanded from the British-based health care organization.

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But under RICO, as long as the last predicate act in furtherance of the alleged scheme occurred within five years of the date the indictment was handed up, otherwise time-barred offenses can be used as RICO predicates as well.

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This new learning approach predicates on the idea that people are now starting to learn a whole lot more from their network of relationships and sources on their own while on the job, than they do from formal training and education.

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The point of this one, narrowly scripted example is not to analyze the liability exposure of the registration statement of the now defunct Dow Jones Islamic Portfolio Fund, but rather to illustrate how marketing an investment product as Shariah-compliant incorporates a whole set of factual predicates, many of which are material to the investment decision.

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