Supreme Court Declines to Take Up Coinbase User Data Privacy Case
2025-06-30 17:23:44
Main Idea
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a case involving the IRS's request for Coinbase user data, upholding lower court decisions that sided with the IRS.
Key Points
1. The Supreme Court declined to take up a privacy case involving the IRS's request for Coinbase user data, leaving a lower court's decision in favor of the IRS legally binding.
2. The plaintiff, James Harper, argued that the IRS's 2016 records request violated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
3. Harper's lawsuit was dismissed by a New Hampshire district court in 2021, and subsequent appeals in 2023 and 2024 also sided with the IRS.
4. The IRS's actions were deemed within the bounds of Congressionally and judicially imposed safeguards for tax enforcement.
5. The Supreme Court provided no additional justification for denying Harper's petition, simply stating the petition was denied.
Description
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a long-running privacy case involving an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) request for data on thousands of Coinbase customers. In a Monday order, the justices denied a petition for a writ of certiorari — essentially, a green-light to appeal an appellate court’s decision — from a Coinbase customer who said that the IRS’s 2016 records grab violated his Fourth Amendment rights, which grant Americans protections from unreasonable searches and seizures by ...
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