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Brazilian court ruling reportedly allows Unindo Sonhos lottery-pool service to continue

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Paulinha Leite said a higher court had ruled that her company, Unindo Sonhos, could continue arranging lottery pools, according to her video statement. Caixa Econômica Federal had challenged the company’s intermediary model, arguing that only the bank was authorised to operate lottery services in Brazil. The report does not identify the court or provide the ruling date.

The reported ruling bears on whether private companies can intermediate lottery-pool bets in Brazil.

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Brazil's Luiz Fux reportedly delays betting-ban ruling until after presidential runoff

Reportedly, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court Justice Luiz Fux will postpone a decision on legal challenges to a provisional measure that banned licensed betting operators in the country until after the presidential runoff. The challenges concern the measure barring those operators from operating in Brazil.

A ruling from Justice Luiz Fux of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) on the court cases against the provisional measure that shut down licensed betting operators will wait until the presidential runoff has taken place. The second round, pitting President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, falls on 25 October. That is also the date on which the 30-day term of the measure ends for fixed-odds betting operators.

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