Judge Phyllis Hamilton found XRP could be a security when sold to retail and gave the go-ahead to a class-action lawsuit over statements from Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.
A United States federal court judge has greenlit a civil securities lawsuit against Ripple Labs, denying its summary judgment bid in a suit alleging its CEO broke California securities laws.
California District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton’s June 20 order means a jury will decide if Ripple boss Brad Garlinghouse made “misleading statements” in a 2017 interview, though the order has thrown out four allegations around Ripple’s “failure to register XRP as a security.”
In the 2017 interview on Canada’s BNN Bloomberg, Garlinghouse said he was “very, very long” on XRP (XRP) — but the civil suit alleges that was false as he “sold millions of XRP” throughout that year.
