Court granted temporary restraining order preventing survey enforcement
Company: Riot
The claim, verbatim
The Court granted Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, restraining Defendants from requiring Plaintiffs or their members to respond to the EIA-862 Survey, from collecting data required by the Survey, and ordering Defendants to sequester and keep confidential any data already received from survey respondents.
Source (primary)
Texas Blockchain Council v. Department of Energy — Entry #24: NOTICE of Agreement by Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Jennifer M (RECAP, court_filing)
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Quote: “the Court entered an Order Granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, which ordered that 'Defendants are: 1. restrained from requiring Plaintiffs or their members to respond to the Survey, 2. restrained from collecting data required by the Survey, and 3. shall sequester and not share any such data that Defendants have already received from Survey respondents.'”
How we checked this
Checked on September 18, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The filing quotes the February 23, 2024 order, which contains all three restraints. The order's wording is 'sequester and not share', which matches the claim's 'sequester and keep confidential'.
Confirmed in the source:
- The Court granted Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order
- Defendants were restrained from requiring Plaintiffs or their members to respond to the Survey
- Defendants were restrained from collecting data required by the Survey
- Defendants were ordered to sequester and not share data already received from Survey respondents
What we did: Read our cached copy of RECAP (https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172776308/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172776308.24.0.pdf) in full (11,936 characters, retrieved September 3, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Texas Blockchain Council v. Department of Energy — Entry #24: NOTICE of Agreement by Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Jennifer M
Quote: “the Court entered an Order Granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, which ordered that 'Defendants are: 1. restrained from requiring Plaintiffs or their members to respond to the Survey, 2. restrained from collecting data required by the Survey, and 3. shall sequester and not share any such data that Defendants have already received from Survey respondents.'”