U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan yesterday
"ordered" former Redskins President John Kent Cooke "to be
deposed" by attorneys for failed team bidder Howard
Milstein, who filed suit against Cooke claiming that he
"helped defeat" Milstein's bid for the team, according to
Thomas Heath of the WASHINGTON POST. The ruling "requires
Cooke to turn over documents" by September 7 and be deposed
by September 15 "as part of an effort to determine whether
Cooke resides in Bermuda." Cooke has said that he is "not
under the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court because he
is a resident of Bermuda." But Milstein's attorneys "have
argued in motions that Cooke was still a resident" of DC
when Milstein filed the suit in May. If Cooke "convinces"
the court that he is a resident of Bermuda, then Milstein's
suit "would likely be dismissed"(WASHINGTON POST, 8/19).
NOT COOKED, YET: In DC, Eric Fisher reports that
Redskins' officials "insisted" yesterday that they plan to
keep the Jack Kent Cooke name on the team's stadium once
they sell naming rights to the facility. Snyder
spokesperson Karl Swanson: "The Cooke name will absolutely
be associated with the stadium" (WASHINGTON TIMES, 8/19).
