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  • June 25, 2026

    Sens. Want CFTC Restricted From Prediction Markets Suits

    A group of 17 Democratic senators has called on a U.S. Senate subcommittee to prohibit the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from using federal funds to prevent states and tribes from enforcing their gambling laws against prediction markets as litigation over the legality of their offerings continues to spread.

  • June 25, 2026

    CFTC, Prediction Market Trade Group Back Kalshi At 6th Circ.

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a prediction market trade group are pressing the Sixth Circuit to affirm sole federal oversight of event contracts in separate briefs that argued state gambling laws are a poor fit to regulate trading on real-world events.

  • June 25, 2026

    Kalshi Says NM Tribes Lack Power Over Its Sports Contracts

    Kalshi is asking a New Mexico district court to dismiss a challenge by four Indigenous nations trying to block the prediction market platform from offering online sports betting within Indian Country, arguing that allowing the tribes to exercise regulatory authority will enable hundreds of other tribes to follow suit.

  • June 25, 2026

    Players Say NCAA's New Eligibility Rules Freeze Them Out

    A group of college basketball players claim in a suit in Ohio state court that the NCAA's newly approved eligibility rules unjustly exclude them by barring athletes who began college in 2022 from playing a fifth season.

  • June 25, 2026

    'Wemby' TM Bid Falsely Suggests NBA Star Link, TTAB Rules

    The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has rejected an apparel company's bid to register "Wemby," ruling in a precedential opinion that the term falsely suggests a connection with San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama and, as his nickname, identifies him without his written consent.

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