State Judge to Kalshi: Your Sports Betting Is Obviously Illegal
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State-level rulings that prediction markets are just sports books narrow the regulatory surface for "information markets" as a category. If your product blurs lines between trading and wagering, assume a state-by-state legal grind rather than a clean federal green light.
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