The opinion editorial below was written by Michael Handelsman for Kelman.Law. This Week in Crypto Law This week’s developments show courts and regulators addressing crypto through several distinct legal frameworks. A federal court declined to erase a settled CFTC enforcement case despite the agency’s change in policy. The OCC documented banking restrictions affecting digital-asset businesses, while litigation over Illinois’s unusual crypto transaction tax moved toward an expedited decision. In Europe, USDC became the first e-money token classified as significant under MiCA. A major English asset-recovery proceeding also produced an important choice-of-law ruling concerning 61,000 seized bitcoin. Federal Court Refuses to …


