Customer Rules - Pleadings & Motions
The length of time a respondent must serve each other party with an answer to a statement of claim.
What is within 45 days of receipt of the statement of claim?
Due date for responses to document production lists.
What is within 60 days of the date the answer to the statement of claim is due?
We will automatically strike an arbitrator has ever been a member of this organization.
What is PIABA (Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association).
The name of Meghan Markle's character in "Suits."
What is Rachel Zane?
Conchiglie, consigliere, cappelletti
What is consigliere?
The length of time that a Claimant must generally serve an answer to a counterclaim.
What is within 20 days of receipt of the counterclaim?
Requests for information are generally limited to these categories.
What are identification of individuals, entities, and time periods related to the dispute? (12507(a)(1)).
The number of public arbitrators in a customer dispute originally generated from the FINRA chairperson roster.
What is 10?
"SVU" is an acronym for what in this Law & Order Series
What is Special Victims Unit?
Manicotti, mineola, mostaccioli
What is mineola?
The length of time before a scheduled final hearing parties must serve a motion under Rule 12206.
What is at least 90 days?
The three substantive requirements identified by rule for inclusion in a motion to compel in an industry dispute.
What are: (1) the disputed document request or list; (2) a copy of any objection thereto; and (3) a description of the efforts of the moving party to resolve the issue before making the motion?
In an industry dispute, the number of arbitrators each separately represented party may strike from each arbitrator list, except list generated pursuant to Rule 13403(a)(2).
What is four?
In "My Cousin Vinny," the defense lawyer attacks the credibility of a prosecution witness by pointing out the usual cooking time for this food.
What is grits?
Farandole, fideo, farfalloni
What is farandole?
The circumstances in which a party may name more than one respondent in the same arbitration.
What are: (1) where the claims contain any questions of law or fact common to all respondents, and (a) the claims are asserted against the respondents jointly and severally; or (b) the claims arise out of the same transaction or occurrence (or series of transactions or occurrences).
The length of time that a party that requested a subpoena must respond to objections to the subpoena by a non-party.
What is within 10 calendar days of receipt of the objections? (12512(e)).
The number of arbitrators in a customer dispute if the amount of a claim is more than $50,000 but not more than $100,000, exclusive of interest and expenses. (must be a complete answer).
What is one arbitrator unless the parties agree in writing to three arbitrators?
The "separate but equally important groups" who represent the people in the criminal justice system according to the opening comments of Law & Order.
The police who investigate crime and the District Attorneys who prosecute the offenders.
Tortiglioni, tortellini, tortoni
What is Tortoni?
What is only upon specific permission by panel order? (12504(a)(8)).
Items an arbitrator may consider by rule in making any rulings on objections to discovery requests.
What are: (1) the relevance of documents or discovery requests; and (2) the relevant costs and burdens to parties to produce the information. (12508(c)).
While the Parties may elect to receive a list of 10 potential replacement arbitrators if one of the appointed arbitrators becomes unavailable, providing that list is subject to this caveat.
What is that FINRA staff will not prescreen the arbitrators to confirm their availability for scheduled hearing dates. (no rule, short list procedure)
This law school turned down a request to film portions of "Legally Blonde" on its campus.
What is University of Virginia School of Law?
Campanelle, cavatelli, calamanco
What is calamanco?