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Massachusetts judge moves to block Kalshi sports contracts

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A Massachusetts judge authorised the state to proceed with a preliminary injunction against Kalshi on 20 January, following a challenge by Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, the report said. The proposed order would prevent Kalshi from offering sports-event contracts to Massachusetts residents without a state licence; a further hearing was scheduled for Friday.

The case may require Kalshi to obtain state sports betting approval before offering these contracts in Massachusetts.

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Federal judge bars Kalshi sports contracts on suing California tribes’ lands

US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley granted a preliminary injunction in Blue Lake Rancheria v. Kalshi in California on Wednesday. The order bars Kalshi from offering sports contracts on the plaintiff tribes’ lands and requires the tribes to provide boundary maps by 13 November; Kalshi must report its compliance steps within 21 days.

A San Francisco federal judge has blocked Kalshi from listing sports event contracts on land belonging to the California tribes that are suing it. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who sits in the Northern District of California, granted the tribes a preliminary injunction on Wednesday in the case Blue Lake Rancheria v. Kalshi.

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