XRP Lawsuit Finale Within Weeks? Lawyers Say Don’t Count On It
Judge Analisa Torres is again being asked to reopen her own final judgment in the XRP lawsuit between Ripple Labs and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Yet in the corridors of crypto law the real debate is not procedural, but psychological: will the judge indulge the parties’ second-try joint motion, or will she […]
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A class-action lawsuit filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the now infamous former Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, and its owner Mark Karpeles, is to be dismissed, leaving many Canadian former exchange customers still without their stolen Bitcoins. Mutual agreement. In a notice released on the Charney Lawyers website, the solicitors representing those who filed the lawsuit said a decision was made by all involved parties to dismiss the class-action lawsuit on 17th June 2016, having come to a mutual agreement presumably over the terms of its dismissal. The implications of this....
An effort to bring a class action lawsuit against defunct bitcoin exchange Mt Gox has been dismissed in Canada, according to a notice posted by Charney Lawyers PC today. Launched in 2014, the class action sought to recover damages plaintiffs lost in the exchange’s collapse, an effort that continues in the US. Now, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled that claims against Mt Gox Inc, Mt. Gox KK, Tibanne KK, Mt Gox North America Inc, Mizuho Bank as well as Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles and founder Jed Mccaleb will not proceed. Sources close to the lawsuit report that the bid proved....
A 2014 class action lawsuit by plaintiffs in Canada against defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been dismissed. The law firm representing Canadian plaintiffs in the class action against Mt. Gox, a now-defunct bitcoin exchange has revealed that the case will be dismissed. The class action lawsuit was originally brought to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against MtGox Inc., Mt. Gox KK, Tibanne KK, Mt. Gox North America Inc., Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Mark Karpeles (CEO) and Jed Mccaleb (founder). The case sought $465 million ($500 million CAD) in compensation for Canadians who placed their....
With the recent attack on the Ethereum DAO, it raises the question of how much technical knowledge do individuals and organizations need to know before applying smart contracts to their businesses? Smart Contracts Have a Ways to go and Need Developers. Recently, an article from the Australian Financial Review explained that distributed ledger tech may be....
A class action against Mt. Gox is being organised by a London law firm that says it will go after CEO Mark Karpeles personally to recover its clients' lost bitcoins. Selachii LLP says it is representing over 200 claimants from China, the US, Canada and 12 European countries, and that it will launch proceedings against Karpeles "wherever in the world he is". They also are in discussions with lawyers in Japan to mount a case against Mt. Gox, which has filed for bankruptcy in Japan after admitting it had lost around 750,000 its customers' bitcoins. One of the claimants in the lawsuit has lost....