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California judge lets claims over RBLXWild gambling site proceed

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A federal judge in California rejected Boris Said Jr.’s attempt to dismiss claims under the state’s Unfair Competition Law, allowing the lawsuit over RBLXWild to proceed. The claims allege that the site enabled users to wager Robux on chance-based games and that Said profited from users’ losses; the judge found the complaint sufficiently detailed to proceed.

The lawsuit can proceed on claims that RBLXWild enabled chance-based wagers using Robux and profited from users’ losses.

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Ninth Circuit backs California tribes’ claims against Kalshi event contracts

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 3-0 for the Blue Lake Rancheria and Chicken Ranch Rancheria of the Me-Wuk Indians in part of their case against Kalshi and Robinhood. The panel found the tribes likely to succeed in arguing that Kalshi’s sports-event contracts on tribal lands violated the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and tribal gaming ordinances, and sent the case back to the lower court to review remaining claims. The ruling did not order Kalshi to stop offering contracts in California.

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