Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency passage of Hurricane Ivan. During the mid-1990s, the sudden eruption by the Soufriere Hills volcano in Montserrat also caused the CDEMA to spring into action, to provide additional support to the people on the island. The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDEMA) also regularly monitors the Soufriere Hills volcano, in addition to the active undersea volcano named Kick 'em Jenny to the north of Grenada. Members of the Regional Security System have requested military and logistical assistance through that agreement after natural disasters as well. Towards the end of the twentieth century, severe weather had been increasing, especially in the
Long-Term Capital Holdings v. United States Long-Term Capital Holdings v. United States Long Term Capital Holdings v. United States, 330 F. Supp. 2d 122 (D. Conn. 2004), was a court case argued before the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut that concerned a tax shelter used by Long-Term Capital Management, a failed hedge fund. The tax shelter had been designed by Babcock & Brown for Long-Term Capital to shelter it's short-term trading gains from 1997. The case was an appeal of an Internal Revenue Service denial of the plaintiffs' claim of $106,058,228 in capital losses during the 1997 tax year and associated penalties.