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New Orleans Bankruptcy Judge Takes Wells Fargo to Task for “Highly Reprehensible” Conduct
Elizabeth Magner, a Bankruptcy Judge in New Orleans’ Eastern District, ordered Wells Fargo to pay a homeowner more than $3.1 million in punitive damages in a scathing opinion issued in early April. Michael L. Jones v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc., 06-1093, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. This ruling was [...]
JSHG Partner Gladstone Jones Quoted in New York Times Article on BP Oil Spill Settlement
Gladstone Jones, a founding partner of Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, was quoted in a March 19th New York Times article about the proposed BP settlement and its exclusion of moratorium claims. “It is time for BP to pay these companies or it is time for the court to let me try my cases,” said [...]
Life Partner Holdings subject of SEC complaint
Texas-based Life Partner Holdings Inc., one of the industry leaders in the secondary life insurance market, along with several of its senior executives, is facing charges of improper accounting, disclosure violations, and insider trading in a complaint recently filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in federal court in Waco, Texas. The SEC alleges that [...]
New SEC settlement policy in place
On Friday, January 6, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a limited change to its policy of settling cases without requiring an admission of wrongdoing from the settling party. Under the new policy, in cases where criminal guilt has already been established, the settling defendant will no longer be able to “neither admit nor [...]
