With the lead plaintiff in the proposed securities class action against the organizers of the Tezos initial coin offering asking to step aside, the San Francisco federal judge overseeing the case has tapped the runner-up in the earlier competition for the lead spot to replace him.

Initially lead plaintiff Arman Anvari, an attorney who previously practiced at Latham & Watkins, Baker McKenzie, and Perkins Coie, asked to bow out of the case earlier this year. The move came after defense lawyers at Cooley and Baker Marquart identified pseudonyms they believe Anvari adopted on social media sites which used anti-Semitic slurs in reference to Arthur and Kathleen Breitman. The Breitmans are the husband-and-wife team behind Tezos, the digital currency platform that raised $232 million in cryptocurrency for an ICO that became bogged down in technical delays, sparking a string of class action lawsuits.