After the favorable outcome of the protracted and widely publicized legal standoff between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and blockchain company Ripple, US District Judge Analisa Torres has referred the case to Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn.
Indeed, Judge Netburn will take over the case for the purposes of general pretrial, which includes scheduling, discovery, non-dispositive pre-trial motions, and settlement, according to the document shared by Fox Business journalist Eleanor Terrett on July 17.
🚨NEW: District Judge Torres has referred the @Ripple case to Magistrate Judge Netburn for General Pretrial (includes scheduling, discovery, non-dispositive pre-trial motions and settlement). 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/EyrA3flpXC
— Eleanor Terrett (@EleanorTerrett) July 17, 2023
Interestingly, Netburn is the judge who had earlier decided that the controversial Hinman documents were not under the protection of deliberative process privilege, referring to the em
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