{"id":1065,"date":"2012-05-16T16:28:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockbrokerfraudblog.com\/2012\/05\/charles_schwab_corps_lawsuit_a"},"modified":"2022-03-10T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T22:35:14","slug":"charles-schwab-corps-lawsuit-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/charles-schwab-corps-lawsuit-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Schwab Corp.\u2019s Lawsuit Against FINRA to Stop Enforcement Case is Dismissed by Federal Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Charles Schwab Corp. (SCHW) against the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. The financial firm had sought to stop the SRO&#8217;s enforcement case against it over an allegedly illegal arbitration agreement. <\/p>\n<p>Schwab had added a new provision to over 6.8 million customer account agreement that would prevent clients from beginning or joining a class action lawsuit against the broker-dealer. Customers would also have to agree that industry arbitrators wouldn&#8217;t be able to consolidate securities claims from different investors. (Both kinds of cases typically involve investors with smaller claims that are usually less than $10,000. Lawyers who oppose Schwab&#8217;s arbitration provision have said that it leaves many of these investors without a legal process to be able to recover any financial losses.) By February, more than 50,000 clients had opened accounts with Schwab since it had implemented its new arbitration provision.<\/p>\n<p>However, FINRA does not let class actions go through its arbitration system and it prevents broker-dealers from limiting the ways in which customers can file claims in court that are not allowed in arbitration. In its enforcement case against Schwab, the SRO accused the brokerage firm of violating its rules by making clients waive their right to file a class action complaint against it. Schwab immediately responded with a lawsuit against FINRA. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/charles-schwab-corps-lawsuit-a\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Charles Schwab Corp.\u2019s Lawsuit Against FINRA to Stop Enforcement Case is Dismissed by Federal Judge\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Charles Schwab Corp. (SCHW) against the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. The financial firm had sought to stop the SRO&#8217;s enforcement case against it over an allegedly illegal arbitration agreement. Schwab had added a new provision to over 6.8 million customer account agreement that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3798,3840,3752,3739],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arbitration","category-charles-schwab","category-financial-firms","category-finra"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Charles Schwab Corp.\u2019s Lawsuit Against FINRA to Stop Enforcement Case is Dismissed by Federal Judge &#8212; Investor Lawyers Blog &#8212; May 16, 2012<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Charles Schwab Corp. 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