{"id":488477,"date":"2025-07-07T19:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=488477"},"modified":"2025-07-07T23:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T22:34:52","slug":"us-court-vacates-tornado-cash-sanctions-ruling-orders-florida-case-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/us-court-vacates-tornado-cash-sanctions-ruling-orders-florida-case-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"US Court vacates Tornado Cash sanctions ruling, orders Florida case dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on July 3 vacated the Northern District of Florida\u2019s 2023 order upholding the Treasury\u2019s sanctions against Tornado Cash and instructed the lower court to dismiss the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The one-page mandate ends the <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/companies\/coin-center\/\">Coin Center<\/a> v. Yellen appeal, the only remaining case over OFAC\u2019s August 2022 designation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/ethereum\/\">Ethereum<\/a>-based privacy mixer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Northern District of Florida must enter a short dismissal on remand to implement the appellate mandate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No party has announced an intention to seek Supreme Court review of the vacatur order; doing so would require a fresh appeal from a new judgment, which the delisting makes improbable.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Mandate ends Coin Center appeal<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Oct. 30, 2023, the district court ruled that Tornado Cash qualified as an \u201cassociation\u201d whose smart contracts amounted to blocked property under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, granting summary judgment to the Treasury.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coin Center\u2019s November 2023 notice of appeal set up a circuit split when, on Nov. 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit in Van Loon v. Treasury reversed a Texas court and declared that immutable smart-contract code is not property and cannot be sanctioned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treasury chose not to petition the Supreme Court after Van Loon. Instead, on Mar. 21, it<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/tornado-cash-token-soars-71-after-removal-from-us-sanctions-list\/\"> delisted every Tornado Cash address<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, stating that newer \u201ctargeted tools\u201d would address illicit crypto flows more precisely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The step erased the factual injury alleged by the Coin Center plaintiffs, leading to both sides filing a joint motion asking the Eleventh Circuit to vacate the district ruling and remand with instructions to dismiss for mootness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The panel granted that request and issued its mandate, formally closing appellate docket 23-13698.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Limited practical change for the mixer<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tornado Cash protocol remains operational on-chain, free from centralized control. Its governance token, <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/tornado-cash\/\">TORN<\/a>, trades on decentralized exchanges that have never delisted it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delisting and the appeal\u2019s dismissal do not affect the criminal proceedings against Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, who face money laundering charges in the Southern District of New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, it does not resolve whether developers can be held liable for downstream use of autonomous code. These questions will likely reach courts only through future enforcement actions rather than this concluded civil suit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the sanctions lifted and the litigation concluded, Tornado Cash returns to the regulatory grey zone that governed it before August 2022, while OFAC continues to signal that it may craft narrower designations for privacy tools that demonstrably serve sanctioned actors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on July 3 vacated the Northern District of Florida\u2019s 2023 order upholding the Treasury\u2019s sanctions against Tornado Cash and instructed the lower court to dismiss the case.\u00a0 The one-page mandate ends the Coin Center v. 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