The Supreme Court rejected Monday an appeal to block the Internal Revenue Service from accessing Coinbase Global Inc.’s (NASDAQ:COIN) user data.
What happened: The apex court denied a request from James Harper, a Coinbase account holder, who argued that the summons by the IRS demanding users’ transaction data violated their privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment.
Harper filed a lawsuit against the agency in 2020, but it was dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire in 2021.
The Supreme Court decided not to review the decision, meaning that …