PoolTogether Case Dismissed, For Now

The judge presiding over the case decided it was not a matter for the Federal Courts.

In late 2020, PoolTogether was sued by Joseph Kent, a software engineer who, at the time, was working as the tech lead for Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign.

The lawsuit was filed taking advantage of a New York law that allows buyers of an illegal lottery ticket to file a class-action lawsuit against the issuer of the ticket. According to Kent, PoolTogether’s MO turned into an unlicensed casino and therefore took advantage of its users. However, the judge disagreed with this view of the DeFi project.