PIABA Petitions the SEC to Remove the Mandatory Securities Industry Arbitrator From All Arbitration Proceedings Involving Public Investors and to Restore Investor Choice

U.S. Newswire, June, 2009

To: NATIONAL EDITORS

Contact: Brian N. Smiley, President, Smiley Bishop & Porter, LLP, 1-770-829-3850, Fax, 1-770-673-0270, bnsmiley@sbpllplaw.com

NORMAN, Okla., June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association ("PIABA") has directly submitted a rule change petition to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission ("SEC") that would provide all investors with the choice of whether to have a securities industry representative sit as an arbitrator on all customer-initiated arbitration proceedings that are administered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").(1)

Under the current Code of Arbitration Procedure at FINRA, all arbitration claims that are initiated by public investors against the securities industry, in...

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