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  • October 30, 2026

    Key Witness May Be Out In MLB Prop Betting Trial

    A Brooklyn federal judge Friday heard that prosecutors may not call a key witness at the center of a fight over exculpatory evidence disclosure to testify against two Cleveland Guardians players accused of a pitch-fixing conspiracy to profit from rigged proposition bets, and refused a government bid to use a purported $500,000 tax debt against one of the pitchers.

  • October 30, 2026

    CFTC Seeks To Block Utah Prediction Market Actions

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is asking a Utah federal judge to temporarily block the state from pursuing enforcement actions against prediction market platforms, including Utah's active civil and criminal cases against Kalshi.

  • October 30, 2026

    Tribal Immunity Sinks Picayune's Bid To Halt Calif. Casino

    A California federal judge has tossed the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians' lawsuit challenging the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians' opening of a competing casino on a 305-acre trust property in the state's Madera County.

  • October 30, 2026

    Underdog Seeks To Halt Wash. Prediction Market Enforcement

    Prediction market Underdog urged a Washington federal judge Thursday to stop state authorities from enforcing gambling laws against the company until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on whether prediction markets are subject to state regulation or fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

  • October 30, 2026

    2nd Circ. To Hear CFTC At Kalshi, Conn. Oral Arguments

    The Second Circuit on Friday said it would permit the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to share its views on prediction market regulation at upcoming oral arguments between Kalshi and Connecticut regulators.

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