Isles co-Owner Howard Milstein "decided suddenly"
yesterday to "switch courthouses in his legal dispute" with
former Redskins President John Kent Cooke and former GM
Charley Casserly over Milstein's unsuccessful bid to buy the
franchise, according to Bill Miller of the WASHINGTON POST.
Milstein will move the suit from U.S. District Court to DC
Superior Court in order to "avoid legal questions about
jurisdiction." Cooke has said the federal suit "could not
move forward because he had moved to" Bermuda before it was
filed in May, but Milstein's attorney Jonathan Schiller said
that "residency is not an issue if the case" is filed in
Superior Court. Cooke's attorney Joseph Hassett has "agreed
not to challenge jurisdiction there, so the case can now
move toward trial" (WASHINGTON POST, 11/17). In DC, Eric
Fisher reports that Milstein's attorneys will refile the
case next week with "discovery likely to begin shortly
thereafter" (WASHINGTON TIMES, 11/17).
BERMUDA TRIANGLE: In a hearing last week, Cooke's
attorneys claimed that a rep of Milstein went to Bermuda,
"misrepresented himself and surreptitiously recorded his
conversation with Mr. Cooke" (WASHINGTON POST, 11/17).
