On April 27, 2026, partner Teresa Huggins won a $5.7 million judgment in the Southern District of New York for an individual cryptocurrency investor. This award follows a summary judgment win on liability in September 2025 against the defendants for allegedly withholding Teresa’s client’s share of the profits resulting from a 2017 cryptocurrency investment agreement. After that win, the defendants argued that the value of the judgment should be paid in cryptocurrency tokens, whose value had markedly declined since the breach of the investment agreement, instead of U.S. dollars. Teresa argued that the judgment should be based on the cash value the parties had earned from their crypto investments at the time of the breach of the agreement, as well as pre- and post-judgment interest. The court agreed with Teresa, awarding her client a total of $5.7 million in damages in addition to post-judgment interest.
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