Kalshi is subject to Utah’s anti-gambling law, judge rules

By: Alixel Cabrera

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: August 5, 2026

Words: 495

Last Updated: 2 weeks ago

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Utah may enforce its anti-gambling laws, even if they include bans of proposition betting, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday in response to a lawsuit from Kalshi challenging a new state law.

The prediction market platform had described the law, which classified proposition bets within the definition of banned gambling, as “an intrusion into the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate derivatives trading on exchanges overseen by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.”

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