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A Michigan court issued a preliminary injunction directing Kalshi to stop offering sports contracts to users in the state. The order requires Kalshi to restrict Michigan users’ access to those contracts.
The preliminary injunction requires Kalshi to restrict Michigan users’ access to sports contracts.
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The dispute concerns whether states can apply gambling rules to sports-event contracts offered by federally regulated exchanges.
The findings bear on state challenges to Kalshi and Polymarket's position that their contracts fall exclusively under CFTC jurisdiction.
The analysis questions Kalshi’s explanation for concentrated activity in its ether perpetual contracts.
The new contracts allow partial settlement rather than requiring players to reach the full statistical target.
The dispute could affect whether prediction market operators face state gambling laws alongside federal oversight.
The denial challenges Kalshi’s account of a tribal partnership.