The decision ends the SEC’s case against Ripple, however, it is expected that the agency will appeal.
So it might not be over, because there's more to this?
The absence of a legal regulatory framework for this type of company services is what opens the way for both parties to act freely without relying on any reference. This means that Ripple can issue currencies and dispose of them in unregulated ways, which will often serve profitable interests, and the regulatory bodies, in turn, strive to align their decisions with any of the financial laws in force to try to prove the conviction.
Therefore, the US SEC or other regulatory bodies cannot be convicted at all, and the evidence for this is that in their pursuit of other companies, they succeeded in proving the conviction. The same is the case now with Ripple, since the case has been pending for years, which explains the problems of monitoring, diagnosis, and proving the conviction, i.e. the length of the litigation procedures.
Personally, I do not trust Ripple and consider XRP a centralized currency par excellence that benefits from blockchain technology and encryption while maintaining the central character.