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Brazil’s AGU asks Supreme Court to review betting ban challenge

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Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office (AGU) asked the Supreme Federal Court to hear the prosecutor-general and consider a further public hearing in the challenge to Provisional Measure 1,394/2026. The AGU also urged the court to reject requests for interim relief; its filing followed a measure that the report says prohibits fixed-odds betting.

The court’s handling of interim relief may affect whether regulated betting platforms can continue operating under the challenged measure.

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Brazil’s PGR asks Supreme Court to pause challenges to betting ban

Brazil’s prosecutor-general, Paulo Gonet, asked the Supreme Federal Court on 6 November to suspend nationwide legal cases challenging Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, which prohibited fixed-odds betting. Justice Luiz Fux had not ruled on the request by the report’s publication; Gonet said parallel cases risk inconsistent application of the measure.

Paulo Gonet, the prosecutor-general of Brazil, went to the Supreme Federal Court with a request to halt, across the whole country, the lawsuits contesting the constitutionality of Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, the text that banned fixed-odds betting. The filing reached the court on the night of Friday 6 November and was directed to Justice Luiz Fux, who is the rapporteur of the betting cases there. As of the closing of the report, no decision from Fux had been issued.

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