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  • July 08, 2026

    Va. College Restores Coed Sailing Team, Avoids Title IX Suit

    Christopher Newport University announced Wednesday that it will restore the coed sailing team it planned to eliminate, after female team members threatened to sue the Virginia college for sex discrimination.

  • July 08, 2026

    Kalshi Sends NY Prediction Market Ruling To 2nd Circ.

    Kalshi is challenging a New York federal court's decision to deny it an enforcement shield from the state's gaming laws, adding the Second Circuit to the list of appellate courts set to weigh in on the question of prediction market regulation.

  • July 07, 2026

    Kalshi Loses Bid To Block NY Gambling Law Enforcement

    Kalshi cannot block New York from enforcing its gambling laws against the prediction market platform's sports-related offerings while the company pursues litigation accusing the state of intruding on the federal government's regulatory authority over derivatives trading, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

  • July 07, 2026

    Kalshi Says Federal Law Bars Wash. 'Gambling' Clampdown

    Prediction market KalshiEX LLC urged a Washington state judge on Monday to reject state officials' effort to halt the company's operations under Washington gambling laws, arguing that federal law preempts the regulatory effort and that Washington has failed to show that the platform has caused meaningful harm.

  • July 07, 2026

    PTPA Power Struggle Spurs Suit Accusing Ex-GC Of 'Coup'

    An internal leadership battle within a professional tennis player advocacy group escalated Monday, when the Professional Tennis Players Association claimed in Illinois federal court that its ex-general counsel staged a "coup" by recruiting a rogue executive committee to seize control of the organization and its antitrust suit against tennis's governing bodies.

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