Court filings have revealed the names of the two United States District Court Judges that will preside over the Coinbase and Binance lawsuits brought against them by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The case of SEC v Coinbase will be heard by District Court Judge Jennifer H. Rearden in the Southern District of New York, filings show.
Meanwhile, District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson will tackle the case of SEC v Binance in the District of Columbia, according to recent filings.
SEC v Coinbase: Judge Jennifer H. Rearden
Judge Rearden, aged 53, was appointed as a United States District Judge in January 2022. In the U.S. district judges are appointed by the chief judge of that court.
While Rearden’s tenure has been fairly short, she recently ruled on a crypto-related matter which involved a brush with Binance.US.
On March 27, Rearden approved the U.S. DOJ’s emergency motion to temporarily halt a $1.03 billion deal between Binance.US and the bankrupt crypto lending platform Voyager Digital.
The decision meant that impacted Voyager customers would have to wait longer to be paid out.
Rearden applied the “balance of hardship” test to arrive at the decision in favor of the U.S. government:
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