Paul Grewal Sides With Plaintiffs In US Treasury vs. Tornado Crash Issue

• Coinbase’s CLO wrote about the legal challenge to sanctions imposed by the US Treasury against Tornado Cash in a recent tweet.
• Paul Grewal says the plaintiffs’ points mark the government’s attempt to ban open-source software.
• Grewal concludes that plaintiffs are demanding their basic legal requirements as per the First Amendment.

In a recent series of tweets, Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal spoke about the legal challenge to sanctions imposed by the US Treasury against Tornado Cash. According to him, the reply brief which is seeking to lift these designations, filed by the plaintiffs is “worth a read.”

In their legal challenge to sanctions imposed by the US Treasury against Tornado Cash, the plaintiffs have filed their reply brief seeking to lift these designations. It’s worth a read. 1/7 https://t.co/T07QCzQ9Ru

— paulgrewal.eth (@iampaulgrewal) May 24, 2023

Grewal reports that the plaintiffs have made four points which all address the government’s attempt to ban the use of open-source software using a property sanctions statute.

Additionally, he reviews the four points in rest of this thread. The first argument states that sanctions…

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