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IN RE GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA

Nos. 83-5708, 84-5198.

740 F.2d 817 (1984)

In re GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS the BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 14, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Griffin B. Bell, King & Spalding, Charles H. Kirbo, James A. Pardo, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Danforth Newcomb, Shearman & Sterling, Henry Harfield, Roberta Bender, New York City, William E. Sadowski, Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, Miami, Fla., for defendant-appellant.

Herschel E. Sparks, Jr., Sage, Gray, Todd & Sims, Miami, Fla., Robert W. Brundige, Jr., New York City, for amicus curiae, The Canadian Bankers Ass'n.

Stanley Marcus, U.S. Atty., Thomas A. Blair, Linda Collins Hertz, Lawrence H. Sharf, Andrea M. Simonton, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Andreas F. Lowenfeld, New York City, for the Government of Canada.

Parker D. Thomson, Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth, Adorno & Razook, Cloyce L. Mangas, Jr., Miami, Fla., for amicus curiae, The Cayman Islands, United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.

Before FAY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and BOYLE, District Judge.

FAY, Circuit Judge:

This case is an appeal by the Bank of Nova Scotia, ("The Bank"), of an order of civil contempt and the imposition of a $1,825,000 fine entered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. On numerous occasions the district judge ordered the Bank to comply with a grand jury subpoena duces tecum. The Bank continuously disregarded the court's orders. The district judge...

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