#Xrp🔥🔥 Ripple invokes SEC v. Terraform case, argues for smaller civil penalty

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Lawyers for blockchain firm Ripple have asked a court to consider an "appropriate" civil penalty in its case against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) following a settlement between the regulator and Terraform Labs.

In a June 13 filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Ripple's legal team submitted a notice of supplemental authority alleging the "unreasonableness" of the SEC's civil penalty, citing a settlement in the Terraform case. Before Ripple's filing, a federal judge approved a $4.5-billion deal between the SEC and Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon.

On June 12, 2024, the SEC sought approval for a final

The SEC has requested that Ripple pay roughly $2 billion in disgorgement, prejudgement interest and civil penalties, while the blockchain firm has argued for no more than a $10-million penalty. Ripple lawyers made similar arguments in penalties imposed in the SEC's respective cases against Block.one, Genesis Global Capital and Telegram, but the filing redacted information regarding the firm's gross revenue.

"As Ripple's opposition explained, in comparable (and even in more egregious) cases, the SEC has agreed to civil penalties ranging from 0.6% to 1.8% of the defendant's gross revenues," said lawyers for Ripple. "Terraform fits that pattern. Here, by contrast, the SEC seeks a civil penalty far exceeding that range, even though there are no allegations of fraud in this case and Institutional Buyers did not suffer substantial losses. Terraform thus confirms that the Court should reject the SEC's disproportionate and unprecedented request and that an appropriate civil penalty would be no more than $10 million."