Turoso v. Cleveland Municipal Court

How later courts describe this case

• holding that district court could properly dismiss conspiracy count since damages were already covered in underlying tort
• finding that certain video game features are “as a practical matter indispensable, or at least standard, in the treatment of a given [idea]”.
• creating new Illinois torts is something for the Illinois courts or Illinois legislature to do rather than the federal courts
• discussing the objectives of the Sunday closing law and quoting section 51:194 C
• describing scenes a faire as “incidents, characters or settings which are as a practical matter indispensable, or at least standard ... in the treatment of a given topic”
• “plaintiff must allege how it was injured competitively by the RICO violation in order to state a cause of action under § 1964(c).”
• although manufacturer complied with FMVSS 209 and FMVSS 210, and subjects of those regulations were in part responsible for injury, compliance not a defense
• video game which captured “total concept and feel” of plaintiffs video game was substantially similar to plaintiff’s game