June 30, 2026
Indigenous rights groups are supporting Rhode Island in a challenge by the U.S. and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that looks to block the state's efforts to prevent prediction market platforms from offering sports-related event contracts, saying the litigation could turn decades of federal law on its head.
May 28, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked a Rhode Island federal judge to join Kalshi in its suit against the state of Rhode Island on Thursday, extending the commission's campaign to assert its regulatory authority over prediction markets.
May 22, 2026
Rhode Island has come into the legal fray over sports event contracts, as regulators in the Ocean State trade lawsuits with prediction market platforms over whether those offerings violate the state's sports betting laws.