{"id":1306,"date":"2024-06-12T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/manhattan-court-dismisses-breach-of-contract-suit-against-blockchain-firm\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:07:23","slug":"manhattan-court-dismisses-breach-of-contract-suit-against-blockchain-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/manhattan-court-dismisses-breach-of-contract-suit-against-blockchain-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Court Dismisses Breach-of-Contract Suit Against Blockchain Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A state\u00a0Supreme Court justice denied attempts by a former blockchain analysis firm employee to secure $80 million in damages after claiming Chainalysis breached his employment contract by failing to follow through on an alleged oral agreement to modify the terms of his stock options.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Joel Cohen\u00a0sided with Chainalysis, which was represented by counsel from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp; Flom, granting\u00a0the company\u2019s\u00a0motion to dismiss plaintiff Blake Ratliff\u2019s breach-of-contract suit for failure to state a viable claim for relief, and finding the suit untimely, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1mA8r_lluHpYzQlaogz2_H9b6eRbjz-Ek\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">June 7 decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state\u00a0Supreme Court justice denied attempts by a former blockchain analysis firm employee to secure $80 million in damages after claiming Chainalysis breached his employment contract by failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1833,1832,143,998,184,644,339],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-blockchain","tag-breachofcontract","tag-court","tag-dismisses","tag-firm","tag-manhattan","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}