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1. Morthland v. Charles Schwab FINRA ID #24-00385 (Phoenix, AZ, 2026-09-10) – In this elder abuse case, two customer trustees are awarded over $1.3 million in compensatory damages relating to their investment in Okcoin cryptocurrency. Although he agreed with the awarding of compensatory damages, one Arbitrator dissented from his fellow Panelists and would have also awarded the customers interest, as well as their attorney fees and costs incurred in this matter as a precedent to deter these types of abuses against elderly investors in the future.

2. Humongous Win v. Title3Funds LLC FINRA ID #26-01122 (Tampa, FL, 2026-09-09) – In this small claims arbitration, a corporate investor alleging that it was prevented from completing a planned Regulation Crowdfunding securities offering after Respondent broker-dealer engaged in a sequence of deceptive practices is awarded compensatory damages.

3. Nakhasi v. Charles Schwab FINRA ID #26-00428 (Des Moines, IA, 2026-09-11) – In this small claims arbitration, a customer alleging that Respondent broker-dealer breached its fiduciary duty when it routed his purchase order of shares in VanEck Russia ETF to an individual investor instead of the VanEck Fund and for its failure to inform him of such, as well as the President's Executive Order that prohibited the sale of Russian-affiliated securities loses his case.