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Federal Judge Denies CFTC Bid to Block Wisconsin Prediction Market Enforcement

By Chavdar VasilevJuly 30, 2026

The brief

The court ruled that sports-event contracts are unlikely to constitute swaps and rejected CFTC’s federal preemption arguments. A federal judge in Wisconsin has denied the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) request to block the state from enforcing its gambling laws against prediction market operators. The c…

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