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  • Van Loon v. Dep't of the Treasury

    Publication Date: 2024-12-16
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Willetts
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    Case Number: 23-50669

    In 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Tornado Cash, an open-source, crypto-transaction software protocol that facilitates anonymous transactions by obfuscating the origins and destinations of digital asset transfers. Appellants, users of Tornado Cash, argued that inclusion of Tornado Cash on the Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons list exceeded OFAC's statutory authority.