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Category: Law
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Online Casino Prediction Markets: Are They Coming?
Nationwide online slots, roulette, and blackjack certified federally with minimal safeguards? It sounds like a bad dystopian TV episode. Mike Selig, CFTC chair, on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots was asked if prediction markets could power online casino games. He pushed back, but conceded it could happen. “It’s possible that you could construct some sort of contract,…
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Canadian Sportsbook PointsBet Could Close Over NBA Bets
Canadian gambling regulators are threatening to shut down an online sportsbook, accusing it of failing to prevent and report suspicious NBA bets. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario announced that it plans to suspend PointsBet Canada’s online gambling registration for five days. The regulator charges PointsBet with failing to monitor, detect, document, and report…
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Massachusetts To Block Kalshi Sports Betting
Massachusetts has won the legal right to block the prediction market platform Kalshi from facilitating stock-market-style sports betting. The state sued Kalshi in September, alleging unlicensed and illegal gambling. On Jan. 20, 2026, a court granted the state an injunction that gives the state the power to force Kalshi to shut down at least part…
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NCAA Players Charged In Point-Shaving Gambling Scheme
Twenty men have been charged in an alleged NCAA basketball point-shaving gambling operation. Prosecutors say the scheme involved: At least 29 college basketball games More than 39 players 17 NCAA Division I programs Schools included in the indictment: Nicholls State, Tulane, Northwestern State, St. Louis, La Salle, Fordham, DePaul, Robert Morris, Southern Miss, North Carolina…
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Can You Gamble On An Airplane?
Delta Air Lines is surveying customers about “gambling opportunities.”
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