A DeFi Fund and an apparel company sued the SEC to prevent it from taking any action against the clothing company's recent "airdrop" of tokens. They argued that the SEC "has adopted an aggressive and expansive view of its own authority to regulate virtually all digital assets and transactions involving digital assets."
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The SEC was sanctioned for presenting false and misleading evidence in obtaining a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against a crypto firm. Judge Robert J. Shelby delivered the ruling, calling the SEC's actions toward the crypto firm a "gross abuse of power."
In CFPB v. National Collegiate Master Student Loan Trust, et. al., a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit considered two issues: (i) whether the fifteen appellant trusts were "covered persons" subject to the CFPA and (ii) whether the original lawsuit had to be ratified because the action was initiated while there was a constitutional deficiency within the CFPB.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama held the Corporate Transparency Act unconstitutional.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ordered the SEC to "correct defects" in its final rulemaking on issuer repurchase disclosures.