Judge orders SEC to turn Hinman documents over to Ripple Labs after months of...

Judge orders SEC to turn Hinman documents over to Ripple Labs after months of...

U.S. District Court Analisa Torres overruled the SEC’s second attempt to withhold the documents relating to division director William Hinman, who said Bitcoin and Ether are not securities. Ripple Labs scored a victory in its continuing legal battle with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Sept. 29 as U.S. District Court judge Analisa Torres ruled to release the documents written by former SEC corporation finance division director William Hinman. The documents predominantly relate to a speech Hinman delivered at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit in June 2018.....


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