John Deaton, an lawyer, and proponent of XRP has joined yet one more lawsuit towards Ripple Labs, a San Francisco-based funds startup. Deaton has submitted a movement that can permit him to file an amicus transient within the California lawsuit Zakinov v. Ripple Labs. 

On behalf of 75,890 XRP holders from america and 143 different nations, Deaton, 5 different XRP holders, and SpendtheBits Inc., a enterprise that has built-in XRPL, filed the movement.

“As a result of Plaintiff solely owned XRP for 2 weeks 5 years in the past, he wrongly asserts that XRP isn’t decentralized like Bitcoin,” Deaton said.

The case is the merger of two completely different authorized challenges, the primary of which is a class-action lawsuit introduced by lead plaintiff Bradley Sostack, a former XRP investor who alleges Ripple provided XRP in violation of California promoting guidelines and as an unregistered safety.

The plaintiff rejects the XRP holders’ request to submit an amicus transient, however Ripple, the defendant, agrees. Deaton contends that the plaintiff’s opposition exhibits that, absent the court docket’s permission to file the proposed amicus transient, the pursuits of greater than 75,000 XRP holders won’t be pursued or safeguarded.

The lawyer had earlier mentioned, “Whether or not it’s the SEC or a plaintiff’s lawyer making the absurd argument that secondary market transactions of a token are additionally securities just because it might have been beforehand provided or offered in a approach that violated Part 5 of the Securities Act, I’ll see you in court docket.”

Deaton has participated actively within the ongoing SEC case towards Ripple by submitting an amicus transient on behalf of proponents of XRP in opposition to the regulator’s demand for abstract judgment. In 2020, the SEC filed a lawsuit towards Ripple for allegedly advertising XRP as unregistered securities.