A judge has provided a movement to dismiss the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) request to peer into years worth that is’ of records belonging to Ripple executives.

A court document from Judge Sarah Netburn, filed on, shows the SEC’s request eight many years of monetary information belonging to Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larsen was rejected friday.

CEO Garlinghouse and Executive Chairman Larsen asked the courts to quash the demand by the securities regulator month that is final the demand as being a “wholly inappropriate overreach.”

The development means Ripple has scored a triumph that is 2nd its battle up against the regulator after having won the right last week to look to the SEC’s internal communications over just how it categorizes cryptocurrency being a protection.

Netburn said the SEC’s request individual documents being financial outside of the owned by deals relating to XRP (+20.23%), which were currently guaranteed by the executives, had been irrelevant and disproportional towards the “needs for the case.”

“The SEC shall withdraw its needs for manufacturing looking for the defendants which can be specific individual financial records and withdraw its third-party subpoenas seeking the same,” had written Netburn.

But, should discovery progress up to a point in which the SEC reveals proof Garlinghouse that is demonstrating and lied about their XRP deal documents, Netburn said the regulator may renew its application.