A US federal court has ruled that the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) cannot re-impose sanctions on Tornado Cash. Judge Robert Pitman declared in his April 28 judgment that OFAC’s actions were unlawful and permanently barred them from enforcing sanctions against the platform. 2022, This comes after a lawsuit filed by users, led by Joseph Van Loon, challenging the inclusion of Tornado Cash’s smart contract addresses on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list on the grounds that OFAC’s actions did not follow legal procedures. OFAC had previously sanctioned Tornado Cash in August 2022 alleging its role in facilitating illicit crypto transactions by North Korea’s Lazarus Group. The agency ultimately removed the platform from its sanctions list in March, after a court ruling in favor of Tornado Cash. In light of this latest decision, OFAC will no longer be able to re-sanction Tornado Cash or place it back on the blacklist.