SEC wants judge overseeing Terraform case to rule on securities claims

The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking Judge Jed Rakoff to rule on whether or not Terraform offered and sold unregistered securities. 

The SEC, in its case against Terraform Labs and former CEO Do Kwon, is making the request to prevent a jury from making a decision on the alleged securities.

The issue at hand, lawyers for the regulatory agency wrote, is a legal question that requires court determination, and is not “a factual question for the jury.”

“There is no dispute, for example, as to any of the facts that establish that Defendants’ crypto asset offerings involved an investment of money, in a common enterprise, with an expectation of profit to be derived from…

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