What’s Subsequent for Coinbase After Choose Denies Dismissal of SEC’s Lawsuit

• Choose Katherine Failla denied Coinbase’s movement to dismiss the SEC lawsuit.
• Fox Enterprise Journalist Eleanor Terrett mentioned that the case would final at the very least a yr.
• Coinbase can file an interlocutory attraction on some or all elements of the denial, mentioned Terrett.

United States District Choose Katherine Polk Failla has denied Coinbase’s movement to dismiss the case introduced forth by the US Securities and Change Fee (SEC) in June 2023 in opposition to the main American change. 

Notably, Eleanor Terrett, a journalist for Fox Enterprise, shared the subsequent steps for Coinbase on social media platform X (previously referred to as Twitter), including that the Courtroom will now set a full discovery schedule, and both sides can request paperwork for the invention course of. 

“A few of this case could possibly be undermined and uncovered by way of discovery, so Coinbase will try and get as a lot discovery on the SEC as they’ll throughout this course of, and the SEC will do the identical,” sources informed Terrett.

Whereas referring to the invention part within the XRP lawsuit, Terrett mentioned that the part will act like a “window” to the thoughts of the SEC within the lawsuit in opposition to Coinbase. 

Additional, the journalist additionally predicted that the case will drag on for at the very least a yr as a result of discovery can take “many months” after which follows “the method of submitting abstract judgment briefs after which a possible trial on high of that,” whereas including:

Within the meantime, I’m informed considered one of Coinbase’s extra near-term choices could possibly be to file an “interlocutory attraction” on some or all elements of the denial of Movement To Dismiss if their attorneys assume that it is smart to take action.

Notably, the SEC filed for an interlocutory attraction within the XRP lawsuit however was denied by Choose Analisa Torres, who made the historic resolution that XRP was not a safety when bought to retail traders.