This page exists because roughly 600 people a month search this phrase, and the pages currently answering them are mostly generic filler that implies wrongdoing without naming a single case. Here is what is actually on the docket.
What we found
Money Metals Exchange v. LawChart.org: they are the ones suing
The federal case that surfaces for this search is one Money Metals Exchange filed against a website, in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho. The company is the plaintiff. This is the opposite of what the search phrase implies, and it is the single most common misreading of a docket by people who are not used to looking at one.
Two employment cases, neither about buyers
Two Idaho cases involve former employees and unemployment benefit entitlement after dismissal. They are genuine cases and they are genuinely about employment law. They tell you nothing about pricing, delivery or how a customer order is handled, and it would be dishonest to present them as if they did.
Source: Idaho Supreme Court, Hennig v. Money Metals Exchange
What we could not verify, and are therefore not claiming
You will find pages asserting that Money Metals Exchange misled buyers on pricing or delayed shipments. We could not tie those assertions to a filed case, a regulator action, or any primary document, so we are not repeating them as fact. Complaints from individuals may well exist, as they do for every firm of this size, but a complaint is not a lawsuit and the two get blurred constantly in this corner of the internet.
If that changes we will update this page. What we will not do is imply a case exists because the phrasing would rank better.
What to check instead, because the real risk is elsewhere
Money Metals Exchange is primarily a bullion dealer rather than a gold IRA promoter, and that distinction matters more than any lawsuit search. Bullion dealers compete on the spread above spot and publish live prices. The dealers that have generated actual enforcement actions in this industry are the ones selling graded or so-called collector coins into retirement accounts at markups that only become visible when you try to sell.
So the useful check is not the company name plus the word lawsuit. It is this:
- Compare the quoted price to spot right now. A normal bullion spread is a few percent. If someone quotes you 20 percent or more over spot, you have found the risk, whatever their legal history looks like.
- Ask what they will buy it back for today. The gap between buy and sell is your actual cost.
- If it is going into an IRA, confirm the metal reaches the custodian. Log in to the custodian directly and check the specific items are listed. That single habit would have protected a lot of the people in our Oxford Gold Group coverage.
For the cases where a regulator did act, and there are several, our enforcement dossier lists each one with the primary document attached. That is where the genuine warnings are.
Court records checked 1 August 2026. Dockets change and our search was not exhaustive, so treat this as what we found rather than a guarantee that nothing else exists. We have no commercial relationship with Money Metals Exchange.
Thomas Richardson
The byline we publish our retirement research under. We are not licensed advisers. We read the primary sources, compare what companies publish, and write down what we find, including where a figure could not be verified.
Fact-checked by Sarah Mitchell, CPA — Licensed CPA with 15 years in retirement tax planning