A Ninth Circuit panel ruled 3-0 that Nevada can enforce its gambling laws against Kalshi’s sports event contracts. Sports contracts made up more than 90% of Kalshi’s trades and 95% of its revenue in 2025, the court noted. The ruling conflicts with a Third Circuit decision favoring Kalshi, splitting the federal appeals courts on the … Read more
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
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
Judge William Griesbach denied the CFTC’s request for a preliminary injunction against Wisconsin in a 28-page decision filed July 29. The court said the agency is unlikely to prove sports event contracts are swaps or that federal law preempts Wisconsin’s gambling statute. Two days earlier the same federal plaintiffs won an injunction against Minnesota, splitting … Read more