· coinbase initially pushed back on the irs summons, but a federal district court later ordered the company to comply, narrowing the scope of the data request. The case stems from an irs probe launched in 2016, when the agency sought data on more than 500,000 coinbase users. The us government asked the supreme court to reject a coinbase user ’s effort to block the irs from accessing his crypto records. Crypto exchange , asked the u. s. Supreme court has declined to review a legal challenge questioning the internal revenue service ’s ability to obtain customer data from bitcoin exchanges like coinbase without a specific warrant. Supreme court case involving an internal revenue service request for data on hundreds of thousands of its customers back in 2016, arguing the. The us supreme court refused to question an internal revenue service summons that forced coinbase global inc. To turn over transaction information for more than 14,000 cryptocurrency. · the united states supreme court has refused to hear a case involving a coinbase user alleging violations of his fourth amendment rights over data sent to the internal revenue service. · coinbase reveals a data breach incident in its operations. Coin), the largest u. s. Officials say the irs acted legally, and james harper has no privacy rights over records held by coinbase. · coinbase global, inc. · coinbase (coin) filed a brief in the u. s. Supreme court on wednesday to hear a case that could restrict the irs s ability to monitor crypto.