A motion was filed against the U.S. Treasury, arguing that it voluntarily delisted Tornado Cash from its sanctions list following a court ruling overstepping it’s rights, but did so before a final judgment, allegedly to avoid a definitive ruling that could bar the Treasury from ever sanctioning Tornado Cash again

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April 21, 2025

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However, the way that OFAC de-listed Tornado Cash, and the subsequent notices and motions its lawyers filed with the court in March, left apparent wiggle room for the agency to put the mixing service back on its no-fly list in the future, a federal judge said. The Treasury attorneys argued that, because OFAC had revoked sanctions against Tornado Cash before the district court’s final judgment (but after the appeals court’s decisive ruling), the issue was moot. But, to the six plaintiffs in Van Loon vs. Treasury — all users of Tornado Cash — the issue was not, in fact, moot. In an April 21 filing, their lawyers blasted OFAC’s response to the Fifth Circuit’s ruling, calling it “a study in chaos” and accusing them of “wav[ing] the mootness flag” in a last-ditch effort to “evade an adverse judgment.”

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Week 17 of 2025