Investors Get Green Light to Pursue Class Action Against Binance

cryptonews.com:

A group of investors who sought to sue cryptocurrency exchange  Binance , its former CEO Changpeng Zhao, and other executives have been given a fresh chance to pursue their case. 

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently  overturned a lower court’s ruling  that dismissed the lawsuit, allowing the putative class action to proceed against the world’s largest crypto exchange.

Originally filed in April 2020, the lawsuit was brought by a group of crypto investors who alleged that they had purchased securities, including ERC-20 tokens such as EOS, TRX, ELF, FUN, ICX, OMG, and QSP, from Binance. 

The EOS token, specifically issued by Block.One, is connected to Bullish, which is the parent company of CoinDesk, the parent company of Binance.

In May 2022, Judge Andrew Carter of the Southern District of New York dismissed the case, stating that the plaintiffs had filed the lawsuit after the statute of limitations had expired. 

Additionally, Judge Carter ruled that Binance, as a non-domestic exchange, did not have sufficient ties within the United States to meet the standards of federal securities laws.

However, the recent ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge Carter’s decision and sent the case back to the district court. 

The appeals court found that the plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that the transactions involving the assets in question were conducted on servers within the United States and that they had accessed Binance from the U.S. The ruling also challenged Binance’s previous claims of lacking a headquarters or physical location.

Regarding the issue of timeliness, the circuit court stated that the statute of limitations clock did not begin until the plaintiffs purchased the tokens, which