Brasilcon filed a motion on 10 March seeking permission to take part in a Supreme Federal Court case challenging Brazil’s fixed-odds betting law. The case was brought by the National Confederation of Commerce of Goods, Services, and Tourism, and Justice Luiz Fux is overseeing it.
The court’s decision on intervention could add consumer-protection arguments to a challenge concerning Brazil’s betting framework.
The day’s most important stories, free. One email a day.
ANJL, IBJR and Anseja asked Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court on 3 November to suspend Provisional Measure 1.394/2026 until Congress votes on it or the court rules on its merits. The associations said operators had each paid BRL30 million for five-year licences and warned that the measure could leave those fees unrecoverable; Anseja estimated potentially affected tax revenue at BRL12.7 billion or more.
Brazil's main betting sector associations have asked the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to suspend Provisional Measure 1.394/2026 until Congress rules on its content or the court decides the merits. The National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL), the Brazilian Institute for Responsible Gaming (IBJR) and Anseja presented their arguments to the court on 3 November, at a hearing where they questioned the legal certainty and economic consequences of the decision. The hearing ended without Justice Luiz Fux issuing a ruling or granting the requested interim suspension. No date was set to decide the merits, so the measure remains in force.
Brazil’s Supreme Court held a public hearing on the future of President Lula da Silva’s provisional measure to close the online gambling and sports betting market; no decision had been made. Justice and health ministers and the attorney general defended the measure, while football representatives described financial risks, including Flamengo’s reported 430 million reais in annual revenue at stake.
No ruling has yet been issued on whether betting will be prohibited in Brazil, the country's Supreme Court having overseen a public consultation that ran beyond ten hours. During that session, Justice Luiz Fux took testimony from public bodies, industry associations and football clubs, who set out their positions on the effects of President Lula da Silva's provisional measure. That measure was designed to shut down Brazil's online gaming and sports betting market roughly two years after it had begun operating.
Brazilian Federal Supreme Court president Edson Fachin said the court could combine cases on online betting, municipal lotteries and the prohibition of games, but no trial date has been set. Justice Flávio Dino proposed grouping the proceedings, while Fachin had initially favoured separate hearings; Justice Luiz Fux said he needed more time to complete part of his opinion on betting cases.
Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) president Justice Edson Fachin indicated that the court could assess jointly the cases on online betting regulation, municipal lotteries and the prohibition of games. The possibility was raised during a plenary session, and no date has been set for the trial.
The National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) told a Brazilian Supreme Court public hearing on 3 November that banning fixed-odds betting would not eliminate gambling. ANJL legal consultants said demand had moved to the underground market; a speaker cited a 32% year-on-year fall in betting volume over the latest three months of Ministry of Finance data.
The conclusion was that prohibiting fixed-odds betting in Brazil is not the same as gambling disappearing. The National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) presented it at a public hearing held on Tuesday by the Federal Supreme Court, with Justice Luiz Fux as rapporteur.
Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice Luiz Fux said on 3 November that his view was that online betting should be prohibited, during a public hearing on the government’s ban. He said the court still needed to consider legal certainty and economic consequences, and that his personal assessment was not a court decision.
Luiz Fux, a justice of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court, said at a public hearing on 3 November that his perception is that online betting should be banned. Fux made clear that this personal assessment is not a decision of the court.