Overview
New York’s enforcement action against Coinbase, and the clearest example on this tracker of the fight over which courthouse decides. The Attorney General brought it as a verified petition in New York County Supreme Court (No. 451604/2026); Coinbase removed it to the Southern District of New York on April 21, 2026. It predates the Attorney General’s parallel § 63(12) proceeding against Kalshi by three months.
The state moved to remand on May 1, 2026, and that motion — fully briefed by June 8 — is the whole case so far. Nothing on the merits has been decided. Coinbase asked to consolidate with two other actions before the same court, People v. Gemini Titan, LLC (No. 26-cv-03318) and the United States and CFTC’s suit against New York (No. 26-cv-03404); the court adjourned that request until it rules on the remand motions, so the consolidation question is stacked behind the forum question.
The case has moved judges twice — Vyskocil, then Marrero, then Judge Lorna G. Schofield in August 2026 — and she now holds the cluster. She took an initial pretrial conference on August 31, 2026 and has set the preliminary-injunction hearing in the federal government’s case against New York for September 14, 2026.