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Prediction Markets

Mexico's Football Federation Sues Kalshi in New York Over Its Use of the Liga MX Name

The Federación Mexicana de Fútbol has filed a trademark suit against Kalshi in federal court in Manhattan, after two months of cease-and-desist letters that the exchange answered by invoking nominative fair use. The case opens an intellectual property front that Kalshi's many fights with state regulators have not touched.

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Regulatory

A São Paulo Judge Orders Apple to Stop Listing Casino Apps That Do Not Check Age

The Câmara Especial granted urgent relief against Apple within five days, overturning a first-instance judge who had put the question off for 15 days to hear the company first. The ruling rests on the finding that Apple admits, classifies, distributes and takes payment for the apps, even though it wrote none of them.

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Sports Betting

California's Tribes Asked Sportsbooks for Terms on a 2028 Ballot Initiative

A confidential CNIGA request for information dated 3 June, obtained by InGame, sets out seven principles for a tribally owned online sports betting market, three market structures with a single tribal consortium on top, a 10% to 25% state share, and a "protect against iGaming" clause. Selected respondents are being met now.

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Regulatory

Buenos Aires Bars 13,500 Child-Support Debtors From Online Betting

The city has added online gambling to the consequences of being on its register of defaulting maintenance payers: LOTBA-licensed platforms must query the register before opening an account, suspend any existing user who appears on it, and report them to the courts. Jorge Macri: "If you don't meet an obligation as basic as feeding your children, there are consequences."

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Regulatory

Hun Manet Says Cambodia's October Online Gambling Shutdown Is Permanent

The prime minister told workers in the sector to find other jobs, said most of them are foreigners, and ruled out reopening online gambling or issuing new licences. Casinos that keep running online operations after the deadline face revocation, on top of a licence review that has already closed dozens.

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Corporate

DraftKings Asks the Patent Board to Void a Geolocation Patent Used to Sue It

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.

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Sports Betting

GeoComply Logged 99.8m Checks on the First NFL Sunday as Sign-Ups Rose 310%

The geolocation supplier's count of sportsbook activity on 13 September ran ahead of Super Bowl LX, and new accounts more than quadrupled, in the same week that prediction-market apps out-downloaded every sportsbook. The two datasets are measuring different things, and the gap between them is the story of this season.

A close-up of the Dominican Republic's flag, with its white cross, blue and red quarters and the national coat of arms at the centre
Regulatory

Dominican Republic Passes a Gambling Law With a Ten-Year Freeze on New Venues

Sixty-two years after Law 351, the Senate has accepted the Chamber's amendments and sent a 195-article code to the president. It creates an autonomous regulator, taxes online betting at 10% a month, requires a .do domain, opens a self-exclusion register, and bans new licences for a decade in a country with more than 71,000 registered betting shops.

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Sports Betting

Senate Advances a College Sports Bill That Treats Event Contracts as Wagering

The Protect College Sports Act cleared cloture 74-24 the same afternoon the CLARITY Act died. Buried in the committee-reported text is a line that lets conferences bench a student athlete for "sports wagering activities or sports-related event contracts", the first federal bill we have seen headed for a floor vote that puts the two in the same sentence.

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Sports Betting

Five US Leagues Ask 35 States to Ban Bettors Who Threaten Athletes for Life

The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and MLS and their players' unions have sent a joint memo to state gaming regulators asking for mandatory lifetime exclusions, a shared list and a single reporting channel. Five states already do something like it. The memo does not reach the bettors on prediction markets.

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Regulatory

Forty-Six Countries Launch an Anti-Scam Alliance, With Cambodia Among Them

The International Alliance Combating Telecom and Cyber Fraud was formally launched on 10 September, with the United Nations and Interpol represented as observers. Its initiating countries include Cambodia, whose regulator has spent the past year revoking casino licences over links to exactly the scam operations the alliance exists to disrupt.

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Corporate

A Malta Court Orders Aviator Studio to Stop Using the Aviator Name in the EU

The First Hall of the Civil Court granted Spribe an ex parte provisional injunction on 1 September covering two EU trademarks. The evidence the court cited is the kind operators can check for themselves: the two games appearing side by side in a search on Betsson, and a listing that credited Spribe's game to the wrong studio.

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Sports Betting

Bank of America: Bettors Get Back 75 Cents for Every Dollar Deposited

The bank can see what its own customers pay into betting apps and what comes back out, and across seven months the ratio never reached break-even. The number that should worry the industry more is the one about balances: households that bet online hold 59% of the deposit balance of households that do not.

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