11th Circuit Upholds Jury Instructions, Sanctions Ruling In Bitcoin Ownership Row

Mealey's (November 13, 2023, 7:46 AM EST) -- ATLANTA — Deferring to a trial court’s ruling, an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found no error or abuse of discretion in the lower court’s jury instructions, vacating of a sanctions ruling or denial of a new trial motion in finding that a Florida man and his deceased colleague did not have a bitcoin mining partnership that would have entitled the decedent’s estate to half of the value of the voluminous cache of mined bitcoin....