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The latest development in the XRP Lawsuit saw Ripple File a Motion to Compel the SEC for documentsā discovery, showing whether SEC employees were permitted to trade in crypto, including XRP and other digital assets.
#XRPCommunity #SECGov v. #Ripple #XRP Ripple defendants file Motion to Compel the SEC to produce documents showing whether SEC employees were permitted to trade XRP and other digital assets. https://t.co/WPLmYwk1SL
ā James K. Filan (@FilanLaw) August 27, 2021
The court has marked 3rd September 2021 as the deadline for the plaintiff to respond to the defendantsā latest motion to compel the preclearance of XRP trading information. The deadline announcement by the court was made through a docket order.
SEC trading policy data production
The defendants have given two options to the plaintiff to produce digital assetsā trading data. The SEC can either provide anonymous documents or with redactions, to protect personal identity; alternatively, the data can be produced in an aggregate form. In both cases, Ripple seeks to highlight trading preclearance decisions about XRP, Bitcoin, and Ether. Furthermore, Ripple has also asked for certifications of SEC employeesā XRP holdings.
The defense has revealed that they met and conferred with the SEC concerning the same issue on four following dates: July 8, July 15, August 18, and August 25. Ripple shared that they havenāt had any process yet.
However, Ripple stated that āthe SEC has requested Defendantsā consent to five business days to respond to this letter-motion from date of filing. Defendantās consent, subject to the Courtās approval of that schedule.ā
SEC lacked Digital Assetsā regulation till 2018
Ripple stated that the court-ordered in June 2021, granting the defendantsā motion to compel the SEC to produce its trading policies regarding the digital assets. Following the courtās order, SEC submitted January 16, 2018, policy, titled āEthics Guidance Regarding Digital Assets,ā that took effect on January 19, 2018.
Ripple highlighted that the policy clarifies that till the year 2018, the SEC had not implemented any policy restricting its employees from buying or selling digital assets. This is further proof of the SEC did not consider digital assets as securities because, till recently its employees were permitted to trade.
This further strengthens Rippleās āfair noticeā argument. Ripple argued that the SECās uncertainty about whether XRP trading transactions were securities, provides evidence that the market participants lacked the ārequisite fair noticeā that XRP later would acquire security status. Additionally, this also discredits SECās āreckless salesā allegations on individual defendants, upon their failure to ascertain by 2013, that offers and sales of XRP were in fact securities.
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