FlightAware Kalshi Lawsuit Ends a Day After It Was Filed

FlightAware Kalshi Lawsuit Ends a Day After It Was Filed

FlightAware dismissed the case without prejudice under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i), which leaves it free to refile the same claims. Judge Arun Subramanian had set a temporary restraining order hearing for Aug. 13 before the dismissal ended the case. The six-count complaint pleaded Lanham Act trademark infringement, breach of contract and New York unfair competition. Kalshi’s market … Read more

CFTC Emergency Order Tells Kalshi To Keep Operating

CFTC Emergency Order Tells Kalshi To Keep Operating

The CFTC ordered KalshiEX LLC to keep operating under the Commodity Exchange Act’s Core Principles and its normal practices. KalshiEX notified the commission of a market emergency on Aug. 1, and that notification triggered the federal order. New York’s July 31 complaint seeks to bar all Kalshi event contracts nationwide and more than $36 billion … Read more

New Colorado Sports Betting Law Limits Deposits, Bans Credit

Colorado Deposit Cap And Credit Card Ban Take Effect

Colorado operators may take only six deposits from a single customer in a gaming day. No dollar ceiling applies, so six deposits of $20 and six of $5,000 sit inside the same limit. Each operator defines its own 24-hour gaming day, so the reset point differs from app to app. Taking a credit-card deposit carries … Read more

Pennsylvania Gambling Limits: Operators Ask for More Time

Pa. Problem Gambling Rules Split Clinicians, Operators

Fourteen public comments and one legislative comment reached the docket before the window closed Aug. 10. Clinicians asked the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to make limit setting the default at account creation. Aristocrat estimated about 18 months to build the proposed jackpot and auto-play limits across its systems. The package amends nine chapters of Pennsylvania’s … Read more

Kalshi Connecticut Loss: Injunction Denied, State Law Wins

Judge Denies Kalshi Injunction, Backs Connecticut Law

A federal judge denied Kalshi’s bid to block Connecticut from enforcing its gambling laws against sports contracts. The court held the contracts are not swaps, leaving them outside the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction. The order says Congress never displaced the states’ historic police power over sports betting through Dodd-Frank. Coinbase lost a matching motion before the … Read more

Crown Coins Casino BBB Rating: An F Over Multiple Complaints

Crown Coins Casino BBB Rating: An F Over Multiple Complaints

The Better Business Bureau rates Crown Coins Casino an F, citing 42 complaints the operator never answered. Crown Coins forfeits winnings tied to duplicate or unverified accounts under its own redemption rules. Redeeming requires a verified account, at least 50 Sweeps Coins and a payout name matching the account. The bureau logged 363 complaints in … Read more

Maryland Sports Betting Tax Drove 90% Of Gaming Gain

Maryland Sports Betting Tax Drove 90% Of Gaming Gain

Maryland’s Lottery, casinos and sportsbooks sent $1.637 billion to the state in fiscal 2026, up $48 million. Sports wagering supplied $43.4 million of the year’s $48 million gain, leaving about $4.6 million from everything else. Handle rose 11.1% to $6.91 billion while the state’s take rose 48.8% after the mobile tax went from 15% to … Read more

FanDuel Predicts Moves Sports Contracts Off CME Group

FanDuel Predicts Moves Sports Contracts Off CME Group

All FanDuel Predicts sports and novelties contracts move to Crypto.com’s exchange, Flutter said Wednesday. CME Group keeps its 51% stake in the venture but will clear only financial contracts. FanDuel Predicts trades under federal commodities rules rather than state gaming licenses and now runs nationwide. Flutter posted a $296 million net loss as group revenue … Read more

Powerball Jackpot Rolls To $856 Million, Eighth Largest

Powerball Jackpot Rolls To $856 Million, Eighth Largest

Saturday’s drawing is the 42nd of a run that began after the jackpot was last won May 2. The advertised $856 million is an annuity estimate; the cash option is $372.0 million. At true odds, a $2 ticket on a 1-in-292.2-million outcome would return about $584 million. The run has produced 36 Match 5 winners, … Read more

Colorado Casino Tax Hits Record $185M As Slot Play Falls

Colorado Casino Tax Hits Record $185M As Slot Play Falls

Colorado casinos generated a record $185,178,613 in gaming taxes in fiscal 2026, up 4.27% from fiscal 2025. June slot coin-in fell 5.24% year over year to $994.25 million while slot hold rose to 8.22%. Taxes grew faster than adjusted gross proceeds, lifting the state’s effective take to 16.07% from 15.95%. Colorado limited gaming paid nearly … Read more