[DOWNLOAD] "Willems v. U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray" by Supreme Court of New York ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Willems v. U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray
- Author : Supreme Court of New York
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
Description
1 This case is one of 23 lawsuits filed by individual investors against U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, Inc. (Piper), Robert English (English), and Tom ONeill (ONeill). The plaintiff investors made various common law tort claims arising from the alleged mismanagement of their accounts created and maintained by Pipers branch office in Butte, Montana. ONeill, who was a securities broker in Pipers Butte office, allegedly took the actions that gave rise to the lawsuits, and English was ONeills direct supervisor throughout this time. In response to the lawsuits, Piper filed motions to compel arbitration in each case, seeking to enforce "pre-dispute" arbitration clauses--that is, clauses in the account agreements which required any dispute be resolved by arbitration. Pipers motions to compel arbitration led to a series of hearings by a panel of three district court judges, who were sitting individually on the cases, but who sat en banc to hear evidence common to all 23 cases. In addition, individual hearings were held with respect to several of the individual plaintiffs. While Piper called common witnesses to testify, ONeill, in a prior discovery deposition, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and did not offer testimony regarding the accounts at issue.