Second Circuit denies Kalshi and Coinbase injunction requests in New York and Connecticut
The decision allows New York and Connecticut authorities to continue pursuing their cases against the companies’ sports event contracts.
The decision allows New York and Connecticut authorities to continue pursuing their cases against the companies’ sports event contracts.
The ruling keeps Nevada's action against Kalshi in place and tests how far prediction markets can operate outside state gambling regimes.
Prediction-market operators face widening state litigation and access restrictions that could reshape how exchanges offer event contracts across US jurisdictions.
The filing tests whether a CFTC emergency declaration can support appellate relief for a prediction-market operator facing federal action.
The rulings leave prediction-market operators facing state gambling enforcement in two US jurisdictions while federal pre-emption arguments remain unresolved.
Kalshi appealed to the Second Circuit after the judge found federal commodities law did not override New York gambling law.
Operators should watch whether Kalshi's injunction extends protection beyond New York's 30 July enforcement pause.