Federal judge blocks Minnesota’s prediction market ban days before it takes effect
A federal judge has halted a first-of-its-kind ban on prediction markets in Minnesota just days before the law was set to take effect.
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Users in Minnesota will continue to have access to prediction markets after a federal judge blocked a law that would have banned most bets on these platforms. The ruling comes just before the ban was scheduled to go into effect on August 1.
Reuters identifies this as a first-in-nation effort to prohibit prediction markets. The legal intervention prevents the state from barring these platforms from operating within its borders as originally planned.
NBC News and The Hill report the pause occurred days before the scheduled rollout. The primary open question is whether the temporary block will lead to a permanent reversal of the law.
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When was the Minnesota prediction market ban supposed to start?
The ban was scheduled to go into effect on August 1.
Who stopped the law from taking effect?
A federal judge issued a block on the law.
Is this a common law in the U.S.?
According to Reuters, this was a first-in-nation ban on prediction markets.
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