Order on JPMorgan Motion to Dismiss

ORDER ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. S.D.N.Y. No. 1:22-cv-10904 Entered: March 20, 2023 This order resolved dismissal motions in three related Epstein banking cases: the Jane Doe action against Deutsche Bank, the Jane Doe action against JPMorgan, and the Government of the United States Virgin Islands action against JPMorgan. In the USVI case, it addressed JPMorgan's motion to dismiss docketed as entry 38. Judge Jed S. Rakoff granted the motions in part and denied them in part after reviewing written submissions and hearing oral argument. The order stated that a fuller opinion explaining the reasons would follow, so the document itself is primarily a procedural ruling rather than a detailed merits analysis. Its immediate effect was to close the pending motion entries and move the surviving parts of the litigation forward. The order is important because it marks the point at which JPMorgan failed to end the USVI suit entirely at the pleading stage. It also links the Government's case with the private victim class actions against JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, showing that the court treated the bank-related Epstein litigation as a coordinated set of cases for key pretrial purposes. This record should not be read as a finding that JPMorgan committed the alleged conduct. It shows only that, after the motion-to-dismiss process, some claims or theories survived while others were narrowed or rejected. Source: SDNY / CourtListener RECAP Available at: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.591653/gov.uscourts.nysd.591653.90.0.pdf