The judge is yet to rule on SECGov's motion for reconsideration
states that the court has allowed it to redact"any portion of the notes" that reflect the author's own thinking or the staff's deliberations.
The agency seeks to redact the notes that were taken by Valerie A. Szczepanik, the SEC's crypto czar, during a February 2014 meeting with Stanford Law School Professor Joseph Grundfest and then-SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher that focused on the legal status of Bitcoin. In June 2018, Szczepanik also met with cryptocurrency lobbying group Coin Center in order to discuss the legal characterization of initial coin offerings.
The SEC also seeks to redact notes made by Michael Seaman, former senior special counsel to the director of the Division of Corporation Finance, and Jonathan Ingram, former deputy chief counsel in Corp Fin's Office of Chief Counsel, during a meeting with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Christian Catalin.
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