More than a quarter of all federal cryptocurrency complaints filed between 2020 and 2021 were filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, with the Northern District of California the next most popular venue for federal complaints involving cryptocurrency.
The New York court led all jurisdictions by a large margin, even accounting for its heavy caseload, according to an analysis of data from Bloomberg Law dockets and federal judicial statistics. The Northern District of California came in second place, both for sheer number of complaints and after controlling for total cases filed. The two ...