Pump Enjoyable lawsuit decide Colleen McMahon says she “doesn’t understand” why authorized corporations Burwick Legislation and Wolf Popper have collectively filed two comparable lawsuits towards the memecoin platform.
In an order submitted by Decide McMahon yesterday, she requested that Burwick Legislation clarify by Friday why there are two filed lawsuits and why they’ll’t be mixed.
She highlights how each lawsuits characteristic the identical defendants, had been filed by the identical legislation agency (two weeks aside), and contain the identical allegations towards Pump Enjoyable — that it offered unregistered securities within the type of memecoins.
McMahon stated, “While the Aguilar complaint, which was the second filed action, is more detailed than the Carnahan complaint, it looks at first blush like both lawsuits are seeking the same relief for the same alleged violation of the 1933 Securities Act.”
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She added, “I am generally opposed to appointing more than one lead counsel in securities fraud class actions, to avoid duplication and keep costs down,” and claimed that she doesn’t need “duplicative lawsuits.”
McMahon additionally requested Burwick Legislation and Wolf Popper to elucidate (if the lawsuits are ever consolidated) why there must be two lead plaintiffs and two legislation corporations serving as lead counsel. She additionally desires them to make clear which grievance needs to be the “operative pleading.”
Pump Enjoyable’s counsel grows
Because the case continues, Pump Enjoyable’s lead counsel, Brown Rudnick, has appointed additional attorneys who specialize in cryptocurrency, NFTs, and blockchain builders.
They’ve represented the likes of Shaquille O’Neal, Atomic Pockets, and Mark Cuban in crypto circumstances.
Initially, Pump Enjoyable operators Alon Cohen, Dylan Kerler, and Noah Tweedale had been late hiring Brown Rudnick and nearly missed a deadline to reply to the grievance.
Burwick Legislation and Wolf Popper are representing Kendall Carnahan and Diego Aguilar in two class motion lawsuits towards Pump Enjoyable.
Alongside promoting unregistered securities, they accuse the platform of working “pump and dump” schemes and leaving the platform open to “terrorist financing, drug trafficking, and other transnational crimes.”
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