Voyager Investors Take Mark Cuban Crypto Case to a Federal Appeals Court

Voyager Digital investors asked the Eleventh Circuit to revive their class action against Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks over his 2021 endorsement of the failed crypto platform.

Voyager Investors Take Mark Cuban Crypto Case to a Federal Appeals Court Voyager Digital investors asked the Eleventh Circuit to revive their class action against Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks over his 2021 endorsement of the failed crypto platform. Aaron Rafferty June 25, 2026 Key Takeaways Voyager Digital investors filed an appeal on June 23 asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to revive a class-action lawsuit against Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks. A Florida federal judge dismissed the case in December 2025 on jurisdictional grounds, not on the merits of the securities and consumer-protection claims. The suit traces to Cuban's October 2021 endorsement of Voyager, which collapsed into bankruptcy in 2022, and tests how far celebrity crypto promoters can be held accountable. Voyager Digital investors filed an appeal on June 23 asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to revive their class-action lawsuit against Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks, according to Crypto Briefing and Law360 . A Florida federal judge had dismissed the case on December 30, 2025. The dismissal turned on jurisdiction, not on whether Cuban did anything wrong. The judge ruled that Cuban and the Mavericks did not have enough Florida-specific contacts for a Florida court to hear the claims. That is a venue question, not an exoneration, which is why the investors are appealing rather than walking away. The underlying complaint, Robertson v. Cuban, was filed in August 2022, about a month after Voyager sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The investors say Cuban endorsed Voyager at a Mavericks press conference on October 27, 2021, telling the crowd he had personally invested, and that the team's sponsorship deal with the platform, reportedly