Topic: U.S. District Court

The top article in the Tuesday, 25 May 1976 issue of the Caymanian Compass was on a bank manager, Tony Field, being found guilty of civil contempt’ in the U.S. appeals court.

Cayman Islands Speaker of the House McKeeva Bush has abandoned an attempt via the American courts to retrieve years’ worth of emails and other documents from a U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office employee as part of a lawsuit Mr. Bush filed in 2015 claiming wrongful prosecution.

An American federal district court has thrown out a lawsuit alleging fraud against Cayman Islands real estate brokerage firm RE/MAX after a judge found the matter could not be properly heard in that jurisdiction.

A Cayman businessman’s effort to reduce his U.S. jail sentence on a drug conspiracy charge by claiming he had ineffective legal counsel has been abandoned.

Longtime Cayman Islands resident and former Jeffrey Webb attaché Costas Takkas will be sentenced Oct. 31 in a U.S. federal court. Takkas, who pleaded guilty in May, will learn his fate in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, according to court records.