Kalshi Wins Injunction in Tennessee Sports Betting Dispute
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- On the CEA’s need for trades to be linked with a potential financial or economic consequence, the judge agreed with Kalshi’s argument
- A lot of U.S. states have so far challenged sports event contracts on Kalshi and similar platforms.
Kalshi, a web-based prediction markets platform, has got a preliminary injunction in Tennessee, hindering state officials from imposing local betting laws against the sports-associated event contracts of the platform.
On February 19, U.S. District Judge Aleta A. Trauger gave a decision siding with Kalshi on prominent issues, summarising that the company is hopeful to succeed in arguing its sports event contracts qualify as swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act.
The injunction concerns individual state officials, stopping them from forcing the sports gaming laws of Tennessee against the platform while the lawsuit carries on. Kalshi provides binary contracts that allow users to bet on results like Supreme Court decisions, weather events and sports results.
A lot of U.S. states have so far challenged sports event contracts on Kalshi and similar platforms, arguing they breach state laws against unlicensed sports betting. Kalshi claims that its contracts come under exclusive federal jurisdiction as swaps under federal commodities law, taking gambling regulations.
The Decision in Favour
A cease-and-desist letter has also been sent by the Tennessee state regulators, menacing enforcement for functioning without a state licence under the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act. As a result, Kalshi filed suit in January, looking for declaratory and injunctive relief.
At the time when Tennessee officials argued that Kalshi’s contracts rely on the result of a sports game instead of the occurrence of an event as stipulated in the law, Judge Trauger gave the decision that the outcome of an event can be an occurrence also.
On the CEA’s need for trades to be linked with a potential financial or economic consequence, the judge agreed with Kalshi’s argument that the “downstream consequence” of sports game results, like boosted merchandise sales after a team victory, suffices.
The court then outlined that Kalshi cannot simultaneously comply with state licensing and CFTC rules, and if it does, it frustrates the uniform federal regulation of derivatives markets.
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Kalshi Wins Injunction in Tennessee Sports Betting Dispute
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- On the CEA’s need for trades to be linked with a potential financial or economic consequence, the judge agreed with Kalshi’s argument
- A lot of U.S. states have so far challenged sports event contracts on Kalshi and similar platforms.
Kalshi, a web-based prediction markets platform, has got a preliminary injunction in Tennessee, hindering state officials from imposing local betting laws against the sports-associated event contracts of the platform.
On February 19, U.S. District Judge Aleta A. Trauger gave a decision siding with Kalshi on prominent issues, summarising that the company is hopeful to succeed in arguing its sports event contracts qualify as swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act.
The injunction concerns individual state officials, stopping them from forcing the sports gaming laws of Tennessee against the platform while the lawsuit carries on. Kalshi provides binary contracts that allow users to bet on results like Supreme Court decisions, weather events and sports results.
A lot of U.S. states have so far challenged sports event contracts on Kalshi and similar platforms, arguing they breach state laws against unlicensed sports betting. Kalshi claims that its contracts come under exclusive federal jurisdiction as swaps under federal commodities law, taking gambling regulations.
The Decision in Favour
A cease-and-desist letter has also been sent by the Tennessee state regulators, menacing enforcement for functioning without a state licence under the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act. As a result, Kalshi filed suit in January, looking for declaratory and injunctive relief.
At the time when Tennessee officials argued that Kalshi’s contracts rely on the result of a sports game instead of the occurrence of an event as stipulated in the law, Judge Trauger gave the decision that the outcome of an event can be an occurrence also.
On the CEA’s need for trades to be linked with a potential financial or economic consequence, the judge agreed with Kalshi’s argument that the “downstream consequence” of sports game results, like boosted merchandise sales after a team victory, suffices.
The court then outlined that Kalshi cannot simultaneously comply with state licensing and CFTC rules, and if it does, it frustrates the uniform federal regulation of derivatives markets.
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