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Timestamp: 2019-04-24 15:55:33+00:00

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LABORERS EASTERN REGION ORGANIZING FUND, et al., Defendants.
MICHAEL A. SHIPP, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court upon Defendants' Laborers Eastern Region Organizing Fund ("LEROF"), Raymond M. Pocino, Luis Giammarino, Robert Bonanza, Anthony Esemplare, Bret Castillo, Laborers International Union of North America-Local 172 ("Local 172") (collectively, "Defendants") Joint Motion to Dismiss. (Defs.' Br., ECF No. 12.)Plaintiffs Paramount Enterprises, Inc. ("Paramount") and William R. Vespe, Sr. (collectively, "Plaintiffs") filed Opposition. (Pis.' Opp'n, ECF No. 24.) Defendants filed a Reply. (Defs.' Reply, ECF No. 25.) The Court has carefully considered the Parties' submissions and decided the matter without oral argument pursuant to Local Civil Rule 78.1. For the reasons stated below, and other good cause shown, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED.
On April 24, 2013, Plaintiffs filed a civil action in Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Camden County, against Defendants, Haddonfield, and John and Jane Does 1-10. Defendants LEROF, Pocino, Giammarino, Bonanza, Esemplare, and Castillo consented to the removal of this matter to the United States District Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a) based on federal question jurisdiction. (Notice of Removal, ECF No. 1, ¶¶ 7-9.)The case was removed to this Court on May 23, 2013.
Defendants move to dismiss, pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6), Plaintiffs' RICO, defamation, and tortious interference claims. For the following reasons, Defendants' Motion is granted.
On a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, a "defendant bears the burden of showing that no claim has been presented." Hedges v. United States, 404 F.3d 744, 750 (3d Cir. 2005). Rule 8(a)(2) "requires only a short and plain statement of the claim, " enough facts to show "that the pleader is entitled to relief, " and "to give the defendant fair notice of what the... claim is and the grounds upon which it rests." Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 (2007) (quoting Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41, 47 (1957) (internal quotation marks omitted)).
The court construes the complaint in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, accepting as true all factual allegations but disregarding "unadorned" conclusions. Fowler v. UPMC Shadyside, 578 F.3d 203, 210 (3d Cir. 2009) (citing Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009)). A "formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do." Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555. Rather, a complaint must allege "facts... sufficient to show that plaintiff has a plausible claim for relief.'" Fowler, 578 F.3d at 211 (quoting Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 679).

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