There were early indications that the Cuban case might not pan out.
Now the loss in the Cuban case could reignite concerns about the agency's struggles in the courtroom, where some crucial cases from the financial crisis crumbled.
What the Cuban case is to the question of "duty," the S.E.C.'s suit against the consummately ordinary Steffes family is to the definition of "material".
However, low frequencies are difficult to target and the symptoms in the Cuban case do not appear consistent with infrasound attacks.
The Cuban case is laid out in a new Web site, www.antiterroristas.cu, where the foreign minister will participate in a live forum on Friday.
Here you have a case, the longest trial in the US at the time it was heard, with a US admiral, the adviser to the president, Cuban generals, all testifying in a criminal trial that covered the 40-year history of US-Cuban relations and it received no press". He draws parallels between the Cuban case and that of Ellsberg.
FINANCIAL TIMES Potential Silver Lining for S.E.C. in the Cuban Case | The agency lost its battle with Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, but preserved its ability to pursue cases that do not fit the usual model of corporate insider trading, Peter J. Henning writes in the White Collar Watch column.
In the Cuban case, as University of Havana economist Juan Triana has pointed out, the very meager growth is affected by the perverse incentive that many of the foreign enterprises have, even in the midst of full reform, to increase their projections toward the captive national market.
The SEC-Cuban case illustrates that, absent resource to plentiful liquid assets or to an impressive insurance policy, targets of government actions have no viable recourse but to settle on the most practicable terms.
