Polymarket US Sues Ohio Officials, Calling In-State Sports Betting Rules Unlawful Protectionism

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Kalshi’s sports event contracts are not swaps subject exclusively to Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulation, allowing Ohio and Tennessee to enforce their gambling laws against the prediction market operator. The unanimous decision, written by Senior Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, resolves conflicting lower-court rulings and deepens a […]

A searchable archive of more than 40,000 documents taken from the Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA) went public on Sept. 23, 2026. Journalist Lilith Wittmann obtained the files through a nine-month breach of the regulator’s licensing portal. Reporting on the files ties roughly 1,000 casino domains to software supplier Softswiss, which says it runs no casinos. […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against prediction-market operator Polymarket, alleging the company ran an unlicensed gambling operation by offering event contracts on sporting events to state residents without approval from the New York State Gaming Commission. The state is seeking to halt the operation, recover alleged illegal gains, secure restitution […]