Federal judge blocks Minnesota’s prediction market ban days before it takes effect
A federal judge has blocked a first-of-its-kind state law designed to ban prediction markets in Minnesota just days before its scheduled implementation.
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A federal judge has halted a Minnesota law that would have banned prediction markets from operating within the state. The ruling comes shortly before the ban was set to take effect on August 1.
Coverage from Reuters, NBC News, and MPR News emphasizes that this would have been a first-in-nation ban on such markets. Other reports from FOX 9 and 5 Eyewitness News focus on the timing of the judicial intervention relative to the August 1 deadline.
Future developments depend on whether the block on the law remains in place as the original August 1 effective date arrives.
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Quick answers
When was the prediction market ban scheduled to begin?
The ban was set to go into effect on August 1.
Which court intervened in the ban?
A federal judge blocked the law.
Is this the first time a state has attempted such a ban?
According to Reuters, it was a first-in-nation prediction markets ban.
Coverage (7)
- Minnesota prediction market ban paused by federal judge days before rollout The Hill · 4h ago
- Federal judge temporarily blocks Minnesota law that would ban most bets on prediction markets CBS News · 4h ago
- Judge blocks Minnesota's first-in-nation prediction markets ban Reuters · 4h ago
- Federal judge blocks law banning prediction markets from operating in Minnesota 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS · 4h ago
- Prediction markets ban to go in effect Aug. 1 FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul · 4h ago
- Federal judge halts Minnesota law meant to bar prediction markets within state MPR News · 4h ago
- Federal judge blocks Minnesota’s prediction market ban days before it takes effect NBC News · 4h ago broke it first
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