Churchill Downs’ Oxford Casino has sued to block LD 1164, Maine’s law that grants exclusive online casino licenses to the state’s four Wabanaki tribes, calling it a race-based monopoly. The…
The key signal from the William Hill incident is simple: a short software glitch that produced 35,072 unintended Jackpot Drop payouts — versus about 518 in a comparable period —…
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has directed the Senate State Affairs Committee to study “the sudden inundation of prediction market gambling” and how operators use federal derivatives law to bypass…
State legislatures and regulators moved quickly in early 2026 to curb sweepstakes casinos that rely on dual‑currency models (real money plus “sweeps” coins), signaling a shift from patchwork tolerance to…
PBS’s hour-long roundtable Breaking the Deadlock: Gambling With Your Life used a fictional 21-year-old named Jeremy and a mock app called “FanFuel” to move beyond the headline debates and show…
CASPR’s Life Savings initiative shifts the debate from treatment after the fact to prevention before harm: its model law would force cross-operator loss limits, a legal duty for operators to…
Nevada’s First Judicial District Court issued a 14-day temporary restraining order on March 20, 2026, barring Kalshi from offering sports, election, and entertainment contracts to Nevada users. The order, which…
In October 2023 a syndicate led by Australian gambler Zeljko Ranogajec spent more than $25 million to buy roughly 99% of the number combinations in a $95 million Texas Lottery…
Virginia’s Senate passed Senate Bill 661 on a 24–15 vote, moving a proposal that would legalize and tightly regulate “skill games” statewide — while stripping localities of the power to…
New York’s case against Valve turns on a point that matters for anyone assessing platform safety: the state says Steam loot boxes are not harmless cosmetic purchases, but a gambling…