Sentences with phrase «cases against banks»

On Monday, a judge pushed an anti-trust case against the banks forward, warning that if the case ends up being successful it could be devastating, potentially bankrupting 16 of the 17 largest banks in the world.

In 2012 it also pursued, and won, a mortgage - fraud case against Bank of America.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, May 1 - A District of Columbia federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by state bank regulators against the U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote in her decision tossing out the case, issued late on Monday.

As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.

«Sometimes issues involving non-bank dealers overlap with end - user issues and in those cases, they can be working with the banks and against the banks at the same time,» the lawyer said.

The fate of a potential criminal case against JPMorgan or other individuals who worked for the bank during the incident remains unclear.

«It's the nuclear option,» said Jeffrey Neiman, a lawyer in Florida who was one of the lead prosecutors on the federal government's initial 2009 case against UBS's Swiss bank.

Within two months, in February 2015, Russian police turned up at the bank's Moscow office to investigate a fraud case against Lotus Capital, the broker with the accounts at Promsberbank.

We believe that market - rigging tactics of which banking institutions have been repeatedly accused — and, in many cases, are legal defendants in actions brought against them — have been disguised but are still widely practiced.

Bitcoiners like to make the case that bitcoin is an anonymous tool and a perfect function to fight against the government, central bank and financial institutions.

AUSTRAC will up the ante in its case against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with the transactions regulator expecting to file fresh allegations on Thursday that it breached the law 100 additional times while facilitating banking by criminal syndicates involved in money laundering and terrorist financing.

Then, in February, Mueller filed a new case against him in Virginia, with tax, financial, and bank fraud charges.

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The Senate voted Tuesday night to kill a controversial rule that would have allowed Americans to file class - action suits against banks instead of being forced in many cases into private arbitration.

A separate arbitration case by Conoco against Venezuela before the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) introduced in 2007 could result in a final decision later this year, a lawyer close to the case said.

Crucially, UK banks prefer lending against existing assets — In particular property or land — which they can repossess in case of default.

The Atlantic's Daniel Indiviglio doesn't think Cuomo has much of a case against eight big Wall Street banks.

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has filed a case against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and Zenith Bank Plc over the freezing of his accounts.

New evidence in the Deutsche Bank building manslaughter case against three construction supervisors has emerged that might help the defense.

Apart from the Tarfa case, the NJC also received two petitions against the judge in respect of some matters — Honeywell v ECOBANK and Sterling Bank v Joma Frozen Foods Product Limited.

Despite the perilous odds stacked against them in vaccine court, the evidence of a vaccine / autism link is so strong that vaccine court judges and government agencies have now recognized at least two theories of how vaccines cause autism: the Vaccine - to - ADEM - to - ASD link in Bailey Banks» case, and vaccine - induced aggravation of an underlying mitochondrial dysfunction that caused full - blown autism in the Hannah Poling case.

Half of this day I've spent running between bank and police station because I had to file the case against some idiot who copied my credit card or something and used all of my money.

A US federal court has ruled against Amazon in its case with the FTC over youngsters breaking the bank with in - app purchases.

Under New York law, a judgment creditor may then garnish 10 % of gross wages, put a lien against real estate (but not actually sell the real estate, if it is the debtor's residence, in most cases) and seize bank accounts if the balance is over $ 1,740.00.

As personal loans are unsecured, the banks and NBFCs do not demand any collateral or security against which the money would be otherwise disbursed in case of a secured loan.

If you don't show up in court or you do appear but lose your case, the creditor wins a judgment against you to garnish your wages or bank account.

If you don't show up to court or you lose your case, the creditor automatically wins a judgment against you to garnish your wages or bank account.

Here are a few major lawsuits and fraud cases filed against the credit card companies and banks, just from over the last few years.

We are looking for expert witnesses in a case against debt rating agencies, investment banks and lenders.

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As the involuntary bankruptcy played out, the bank filed cases to enforce the personal guarantee against Rosenberg and National Medical Imaging.

don't nobody knock message boards: i participate in three which are absolute mustard: given the right kind of people and enough mutual association, they are the best way to swap ideas and even cooperate on projects (case in point: the TMF banking board successfully staged a fight against the Irish minister of finance to defend a bond widely held by its members — including legal action and political lobbying): there is something about the mechanism of general conversation in a small group of like - minded friends that can really take off

In both cases, if a creditor has taken collection action against you (even the Canada Revenue Agency) or has imposed an enforcement measure such as a wage garnishment or frozen your bank account, this is stopped once a bankruptcy or consumer proposal is filed.

For example, the Department of Labor won a case in 2010 against Bank of America in which the bank was found to have discriminated against African - Americans by using credit checks to hire entry - level employBank of America in which the bank was found to have discriminated against African - Americans by using credit checks to hire entry - level employbank was found to have discriminated against African - Americans by using credit checks to hire entry - level employees.

The authors of the study point to other regulatory and legislative acts, including the «order precedence rule,» commonly known as the «Manning Rule» after a legal case against Charles Schwab, the Gramm - Leach - Bliley Act, which saw the end of the Glass - Steagall Act of 1933 and formally allowed the combination of commercial banks, securities firms and insurance companies, Regulation Fair Disclosure, which devalued stock research, and the Global Settlement ruling, which has made research coverage tougher for issuers to secure.

Media liberal pressure has prompted a stream of laws, regulations and directives to champion the criminal against the police, the child against the school, the patient against the hospital, the employee against the company, the soldier against the army, the borrower against the bank, the convict against the prison — there is a new case in the papers almost every day, and each victory is a small erosion of the efficiency and effectiveness of the institution.

On 11 December 2012, sanctions against Sina Bank (Case T - 15 / 11 Sina Bank v. Council) were annulled.

My summary of the case is: A trial judge — he wasn't named in the Court of Appeal but his name can easily be discovered — had dismissed plaintiff's claim against the defendant bank and a solicitor for breach of fiduciary duty and negligence.

The case involved issues as to the interpretation of DIFC regulatory law and claims against the defendant bank in both contract and tort.

RBS - v - Highland Financial Partners LP & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 328 — a high profile case relating to a claim brought by RBS for an anti-suit injunction seeking to block fraud claims against the bank in Texas for more than $ 100 million.

Since our foundation in 2009, our work has included a wide range of notable cases, including some of the most high - profile litigation against major banks in the last decade.

Marc has considerable experience in acting in disputes against the banks in relation to LIBOR, Forex and other benchmark rate fixing and manipulation, as well as cases involving the mis - selling of complex financial products and claims relating to breach of mandate and payments fraud.

His recent cases include defending the former President and majority shareholder of VAB Bank against charges of contempt of court (sole counsel); acting for Mercuria Energy Trading in its successful defence of a US$ 270 million claim by Citibank in one of the biggest High Court banking trials of 2014, acting for the Claimant in an on - going US$ 830 million fraud claim in the Commercial Court (Russian banking sector), a US$ 800 million joint venture dispute in the BVI and acting as junior counsel to the Claimants in Hulley & ors v.

The case was against her and also a bank.

Other public interest cases include unpaid overtime class actions against Canadian banks and other employers and minimum wage class actions on behalf of junior hockey players.

In the unusual bonus claim case of Herbert v JP Morgan (2012), he successfully defended the investment bank against a High Court, Queen's Bench Division claim by an banker for a bonus based on an alleged negligent misrepresentation during the recruitment process.

Joshua Lenon: I think what law firms need to think about is centralizing and standardizing their data so in the past we had those giant middle off folders that have been overflowing with our case files and while those were great for storing things in bank or boxes and filing cabinets it didn't really make it something you could search against.

These challenges will not be affected by the recent test case brought by the OFT against the clearing banks, and should not be adjourned.

Unless the company either pays what it owes before the case (including your legal costs) or offers a convincing defence at trial, you will then have a judgment against it, which you can enforce against the company's assets or bank account.

Alison Wilson Qualified: 2005 Made partner: 2014 Key cases: Advising a major bank on an FCA investigation into its handling of PPI complaints; advising Standard Chartered Bank in its successful claim against the Ceylon Petroleum Company in connection with oil derivatives; advising a major bank on a multijurisdictional fraud perpetrated against it by a hedge fund manager, including civil claims and associated criminal investigatibank on an FCA investigation into its handling of PPI complaints; advising Standard Chartered Bank in its successful claim against the Ceylon Petroleum Company in connection with oil derivatives; advising a major bank on a multijurisdictional fraud perpetrated against it by a hedge fund manager, including civil claims and associated criminal investigatiBank in its successful claim against the Ceylon Petroleum Company in connection with oil derivatives; advising a major bank on a multijurisdictional fraud perpetrated against it by a hedge fund manager, including civil claims and associated criminal investigatibank on a multijurisdictional fraud perpetrated against it by a hedge fund manager, including civil claims and associated criminal investigations.