Lagos State Government asked Nigeria’s Supreme Court for permission to serve a contempt notice on the National Assembly over its proposed Central Gaming Bill. The state alleges that the bill encroaches on powers reserved to states by a 2024 ruling on lottery and gaming regulation.
The dispute may affect whether Nigeria’s federal legislature can establish national rules for state-regulated gaming.
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel asked an Ingham County Circuit Court judge to hold Kalshi in contempt, alleging the company advertised in the state despite a preliminary injunction barring it from doing so. The filing said Kalshi had disregarded the court order.
Michigan's attorney general says Kalshi advertised in the state even though a preliminary injunction barred the company from doing so. Dana Nessel, the state's attorney general, made that claim in a recent filing in Ingham County Circuit Court. The filing asks Judge Rosemarie Aquilina to hold Kalshi in contempt.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board has asked the First Judicial District Court to hold KalshiEX in contempt and impose monetary penalties, alleging the platform breached a 18 May order. That order required Kalshi to stop offering sports, election and entertainment-related event contracts in Nevada; the board says the contracts constitute wagering under state law.
New Jersey has petitioned the US Supreme Court over states’ authority to regulate sports wagers on prediction markets. The request concerns platforms registered with the CFTC.
Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office (AGU) has asked the Supreme Federal Court to clarify the scope of its ruling restricting state lottery operations. The AGU says the decision should not cover fixed-odds betting and has asked the court to confirm territorial limits on state operators, including restrictions on digital advertising beyond their home states.
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.