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The Federal Register publishes the CFTC's two swap rules on Monday: the exclusion for licensed sportsbooks and casinos is in force that day, and the proposal to define event contracts as swaps opens for comment until 18 November. The rule text says the first changes no one's legal rights, and the second is not yet law.

The professional bettor prosecutors place at the centre of the college and Chinese basketball fixing scheme has admitted seven counts in Philadelphia, including two transferred from the Brooklyn case against Terry Rozier. He will be sentenced in February, weeks after Rozier's trial is due to open.

Sportsbook supplier Altenar has asked the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority to act against Sportradar's control of official MLB, NBA, NHL and ATP data, six months after suing it in New Jersey. A complaint is not an investigation, and neither authority has said it has opened one.

New York's Gaming Commission has proposed barring every gambling licensee in the state, not only sportsbooks, from using AI to tailor offers or suggest bets, and presuming any personalised offer unlawful. A second rule would make mobile sportsbooks flag, contact and if necessary close the accounts of at-risk bettors.

The senator whose name is on the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act and the CFTC chairman who implemented it have told the Supreme Court that Congress never moved sports betting from the states to the commodities regulator. The American Gaming Association, 145 tribes and tribal groups and Atlantic City's casinos filed too, and there is still nothing on the docket for Kalshi.

The tribe that holds Florida's sports betting monopoly wants a Broward County court to shut down DraftKings' prediction-market sports tab and its Pick6 game, and accuses chief executive Jason Robins personally of racketeering. It is suing under state law, in state court, where DraftKings' federal preemption defence has to be won rather than assumed.

Maine's gambling regulator now says the first quarter of 2027 is the more practical target for online casino, and the state has told a federal court its rules cannot take effect before 25 November. Between now and launch sit a legality review, six hires, a licensing portal still to be launched and a constitutional challenge still waiting for a ruling.

Ohio has led 38 other states and the District of Columbia in urging the Supreme Court to take New Jersey's case against Kalshi, joined by the tribe behind the landmark 1987 tribal gaming ruling, the National Football League and three nonprofits that want the Court to revisit Murphy. Every brief on the docket backs New Jersey; Kalshi's response is due on 9 November.

Ontario's regulator has given theScore Bet the largest penalty it can impose for a single breach of its igaming standards, after a player accepted two cash-out offers on a CA$1,000 parlay and received neither. The ruling turns a cash-out figure on screen into something an operator must be able to pay.

Two associations of gaming regulators have told the Supreme Court that the same Kalshi contract is shielded from state law in New Jersey and subject to it in Ohio, and that only the Court can end that. They follow a group of state lawmakers in backing New Jersey's petition; nobody has yet filed for Kalshi.

The Ohio Casino Control Commission has told Polymarket, Robinhood, Coinbase and seven other platforms to stop offering sports event contracts to Ohioans and confirm it in writing within 14 days. Kalshi, the company that lost in the Sixth Circuit, did not get a letter: its $5 million penalty case is already under way.

Kalshi has asked the Ninth Circuit to hold its rehearing petition until the CFTC rewrites its rule on gaming contracts, which the agency says will be final within two months. Nevada's answer is that the court already knew the rule was changing, and that the panel's ruling never depended on it.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has asked the White House to clear a rule defining event contracts as swaps, the classification on which its claim to exclusive jurisdiction rests, and a second that would exclude "casino-style gambling products" with immediate effect. Neither text is public, and both arrive days after a second federal appeals court rejected the swaps argument.

A unanimous panel has held that Kalshi's sports contracts are not swaps, and that federal commodities law would not shield them from state gambling law even if they were. It is the second federal appeals court in a month to side with the states, leaving Kalshi with one win in three circuits as the Supreme Court weighs whether to take the question.

The Indian Gaming Association chair told Gaming America that more tribal lawsuits are coming after the Ninth Circuit, that DraftKings' tribal partnerships in Connecticut, Arizona and Washington are at risk over its prediction-market push, and that the Supreme Court will rule against Kalshi. CNIGA's James Siva: "We're keeping track."

New Alabama filings show the Chumba Casino owner gave the Republican governor candidate a further $100,000 on 31 August, $170,000 to a PAC funded by DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM and the Poarch Band, and $10,000 to $20,000 apiece to six state senators, 36 contributions in five months in a state with no lottery and no regulated online gambling.

A King County judge has refused to revisit the injunction that keeps Kalshi's sports, election and entertainment contracts out of Washington, rejecting the argument that rivals are still operating there. In the same week Kalshi asked for 30 more days on New Jersey's Supreme Court petition and Montana agreed to stand down until the Ninth Circuit rules en banc.

Interactive Games sued DraftKings in Massachusetts in April over a patent covering geolocated mobile wagering and what a device displays when a customer is outside a permitted state. DraftKings' petition says Nevada rules required all of that in 2006, three years before the patent's priority date, and asks the PTAB to review it.

The letters Catherine Hanaway promised on Wednesday went out to Polymarket, Kalshi, Crypto.com, Novig, Underdog and Robinhood, dated 16 and 17 September. Five of the six are told to stop serving under-21s. The licensed sportsbooks' own exchange products are not on the list, and Kentucky, she says, is close to a settlement.

A 2023 model ranked online casino players by how much they would lose per promotion and steered bonuses towards the top scorers, according to the New York Times. A parallel model to flag customers sliding towards harm was shut down in early 2025. DraftKings says predictive risk scoring was not evidence-based.

New Jersey's total gaming revenue fell 4.1% to $615.7m as eight of nine casino floors lost ground and a late football calendar cut sports betting revenue to $61.4m. Online casino rose 4.4% to $259.3m but came off July's record, and for a second month the floor out-earned the internet. The summer as a whole was the resort's best in ten years.

Catherine Hanaway says sports contracts "fit four square the definition of gambling in Missouri", that they siphon money from sportsbooks that pay the state's tax, and that what she wants is an agreement putting the exchanges under Missouri gaming law and taxing them. If there is no agreement she will sue; she expects them to sue her first.

A second unanimous panel in three weeks has ruled against the exchange, this time for two California tribes under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. The court held that IGRA and the Commodity Exchange Act "simply address two different questions", and sent the case back for an injunction. Lawyers on the tribal side are already talking about geofencing reservations.

Judge Lorna Schofield heard the commission argue that the Commodity Exchange Act pre-empts New York's $3.4 billion gambling case against Coinbase and Gemini, and pressed its lawyers on why she should enjoin the state when other federal courts have declined to. She did not rule from the bench.