While this suit is unlikely to cause the exchange to go bankrupt and liquidate, it is a “shot across the bow”. When the inevitable same thing happens to gold and silver(on a much larger scale) they and the COMEX are unlikely to get away with just cancelling trades. The highly leveraged shorts will be destroyed and the economic repercussions,unprecedented. https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-12215983/London-Metal-Exchange-faces-370m-legal-showdown-nickel-debacle.html