Court documents show that six people (Joseph Van Loon, Tyler Almeida, Alexander Fisher, Preston Van Loon, Kevin Vitale and Nate Welch), including two Coinbase employees, have filed a case against the U.S. Treasury Department for placing Tornado Cash on the sanctions list. to the Fifth Circuit, which will rehear the case.
According to previous news in August, in the lawsuit regarding Tornado Cash sanctions supported by Coinbase, District Court Judge Robert Pitman stated in a document that the plaintiffs Joseph Van Loon, Tyler Almeida, Alexander Fisher, Preston Van Loon, Kevin Vitale and Nate Welch were dismissed. Motion for partial summary judgment.
They argued that the judgment exceeded legal authority because Tornado Cash is not an individual but an agreement. Pitman objected to this view: "Tornado Cash has founders, developers and a DAO to manage the platform." The court held that Tornado Cash was an association in the ordinary sense and therefore a designable entity under OFAC regulations.