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US Federal Judge Rejects SEC and Ripple’s Request for Indicative Ruling, Further Delaying Resolution
• U.S. District Court Judge Analisa Torres denied Ripple and the SEC’s joint motion for an indicative ruling on their agreement to settle the years-long legal dispute.
• Judge Torres said the request was “procedurally improper,” and the parties failed to address what was necessary to lift the original injunction against Ripple.
• Ripple CLO Stuart Alderoty said the company will revisit the case in court with the SEC.
The Southern District of New York Court dismissed the joint request from the Securities and Exchange Commission and Ripple Labs for an indicative ruling on a potential resolution in the years-long dispute between the entities.
The decision comes a week after the SEC and Ripple submitted the request after entering into a settlement agreement, where they sought an indicative ruling to lift the August 2024 injunction against Ripple and reduce the imposed penalties from $125 million to $50 million.
An indicative ruling is a statement from a district court about how it would rule on a motion if it still had jurisdiction over a case.
According to Rule 62.1, a district court does not have real authority to grant or reject a request. As the SEC and Ripple each filed appeals to a final judgment in August 2024, their cross-appeals are still pending in a higher court, the Second Circuit.
“Accordingly, if jurisdiction were restored to this court, the court would deny the parties’ motion as procedurally improper,” District Judge Analisa Torres said in the Thursday order.
The judge said the parties failed to address the “heavy burden” they must overcome to vacate the injunction, adding that relief from judgment under Rule of Civil Procedure 60 should be made in “exceptional circumstances.”
What’s next
The SEC and Ripple previously said that if Judge Torres made an indicative ruling to lift the injunction against Ripple, they would jointly request a limited remand from the Second Circuit. This remand would have returned the case to the district court to formally implement their mutual agreement and dismiss their cross-appeals.
Ripple’s Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty said on X that the company and the SEC will revisit this case in the court.
“Nothing in today’s order changes Ripple’s wins,” Alderoty wrote.
“The meaning here is that the parties didn’t request relief under the right rule of civil procedure,” crypto attorney Fred Rispoli commented on X. “So they will refile it under the correct rule but, me reading between the lines, is that Ripple and the SEC need to get on all fours and beg for relief.”
The SEC-Ripple case is one of the most prominent lawsuits in crypto history. It started in late 2020 when the regulatory agency sued Ripple over its sale of XRP tokens, which the regulator viewed as a violation of federal securities laws. The case attracted significant attention, centering on whether XRP, and cryptocurrencies in general, should be considered financial securities.
The dispute took a significant turn when new leadership took over the SEC under pro-crypto President Donald Trump and adopted a friendlier stance toward crypto regulation. The agency has dropped its enforcement actions against several major crypto players this year, including Coinbase and Kraken.
The price of XRP fell 6% in the past 24 hours to trade at $2.38 as of 10:10 p.m. on Thursday ET, according to The Block’s XRP price page.
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Source: The Block
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South American Nation Could Join BRICS During 2025 Summit
• The 17th BRICS summit will take place on July 7–8, 2025, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
• Colombia may become the first South American country to join the BRICS alliance.
• Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has officially proposed Colombia’s membership.
• Colombia is also seeking entry into the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB).
A leading South American country could join the BRICS alliance during the 2025 summit in July. The 17th summit is scheduled to take place in Brazil’s Rio De Janeiro on July 7 and 8, during which the 10-member bloc will meet to discuss trade policies, currency options, and new memberships. The alliance’s decisions are consensus-based, as all nations have to agree to move forward on a policy.
No South American country has been part of the BRICS alliance, and things could change after the 2025 summit. Even the 13 ‘partner countries’ are not from South America, while Cuba, the closest, is in the Caribbean. This year’s summit could see major changes in how the bloc operates and advance the de-dollarization agenda on the global stage.
BRICS: South American Nation Colombia Wants to Join BRICS After 2025 Summit
Brazil, which chairs the upcoming summit, has proposed that the South American nation of Colombia join BRICS in 2025.
“Our President Lula da Silva suggested Colombia as a new full-fledged member of BRICS. This issue was discussed by the group’s members,” said Brazilian Ambassador to Russia Rodrigo de Lima Baena Soares.
He also explained that Trump’s trade wars and tariffs led to the South American country Colombia considering BRICS in 2025. “What President Trump did was throw us into an abyss of opportunity,” he said. The decision to allow Colombia into the bloc will be consensus-based at the 17th summit in July.
The South American nation Colombia has also requested to join the BRICS bank ‘New Development Bank’ after the 2025 summit. Entry into NDB will allow Colombia to see new loans outside the Western-dominated International Monetary Fund (IMF).
“We would need to talk about new loans, talks about the purchase of debt. And it’s there that great possibilities emerge with a bank like the BRICS’ new bank, on top of loans we could obtain for the issue of education or infrastructure,” said Congressman Alejandro Toro.
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Source: Watcher.Guru
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