Brazil’s Supreme Court has been asked to suspend the provisional measure that closed the licensed online gambling market, reportedly.
A suspension could affect the measure’s closure of Brazil’s licensed online gambling market.
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Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino rejected the ANJL’s request for an interim suspension of Minas Gerais’s decree restricting betting advertising on state property and at state-backed events. The decree also bars state funds from financing such activity; the court has yet to decide the case’s merits. ANJL said it will appeal to the full court.
ABERT asked Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court on 25 August to suspend Rio Grande do Sul’s law restricting betting-platform advertising, as the measure took effect. The association argues that the state exceeded its constitutional powers and warns that differing state rules could create as many as 27 separate regimes; the court had not issued a final ruling in the account provided.
Brazil’s Attorney-General’s Office asked the Supreme Federal Court to suspend Rio Grande do Sul’s Law 16.508/2026, which restricts advertising for fixed-odds betting platforms. The law is due to take full effect on 25 August 2026; the request was filed in a case brought by the National Association of Games and Lotteries, which challenges the law’s constitutionality.
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.
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.