Legal Opinion
Winklevoss Capital Fund, LLC v. Shrem
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided January 7, 2019No. 18-cv-8250(JSR)PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JED S. RAKOFF, U.S.D.J.
The Court previously issued a bottom-line order denying defendant's motions to dismiss and to strike. Dkt. 78. The reasons for these decisions are set forth below.
Background
Familiarity with all prior proceedings is here assumed. The pertinent factual allegations, drawn from the complaint, are as follows:
The principals of Winklevaus Capital Fund, LLC ("WCF"), Cameron and Tyler Winklevaus (collectively, "the Winklevaus brothers"), met Charles Shrem in 2012, shortly after Shrem had launched Bitlnstant, an online platform for buying and selling Bitcoin, a virtual currency.…
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