About and methodology

Prediction Market Laws is an independent reference on how US law treats prediction markets: exchanges and brokers that offer event contracts regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the states, tribes, courts and lawmakers pushing back. It is written for lawyers, compliance teams, operators and reporters who need the current status and the primary source in one place.

What we track

• For each state and DC: enforcement actions, lawsuits, court orders, enacted laws and pending bills.
• Court cases between operators, states, tribes, users and federal agencies, with docket timelines.
• Federal developments: CFTC rulemaking and guidance, Supreme Court activity, bills in Congress and prosecutions.

How states are categorized

Each jurisdiction gets the first category below that applies.

1. Court order in force. A court order currently bars at least one CFTC-regulated prediction market from offering some contracts, usually sports, to people in the state.
2. In litigation. The state and a prediction market operator are actively in court, and no order blocking the operator is in force.
3. Enforcement, no lawsuit. State officials have sent cease-and-desist letters or taken other enforcement steps, but we found no active litigation.
4. Law enacted. The state has enacted a law that specifically addresses prediction markets or event contracts, and none of the categories above apply.
5. No public action found. We found no public enforcement, litigation or enacted law. Pending bills may still be listed on the state's page.

A category describes what officials and courts have done. It is not our conclusion about whether any product is legal in a state.

Open questions

The open questions are pending court and agency decisions written as yes-or-no questions. Each names the docket that will settle it, the next dated step and what counts as Yes or No. We write them before the outcome is known and record the result with a link to the order. We don't publish odds, forecasts or market prices.

Prediction Market Laws is not a prediction market. Nothing on this site is an offer to trade, and we have no affiliate or referral relationship with any exchange or broker.

Sources and dates

Every action, case event and federal entry links to its source. We prefer primary sources: court dockets and opinions, regulator and attorney general releases, the Federal Register, CFTC.gov and legislature bill pages. Where those are unavailable we cite established legal and industry press. Each page shows the date it was last checked. If a date or docket number could not be confirmed, we leave it out rather than estimate it.

Corrections

This area changes weekly and we will sometimes be behind or wrong. Send corrections, missing cases and new filings to contact@predictionmarketlaws.com. We fix confirmed errors and update the page's checked date.

Independence

We are not affiliated with any exchange, broker, sportsbook, tribe, regulator or government body, and no listing or ranking on this site is paid. Prediction Market Laws is published by AI Laws By State LLC.

Using our data

The state table and lawsuit tracker can be downloaded as CSV or JSON from the states and lawsuits pages. You are welcome to quote and reuse it with a link back to predictionmarketlaws.com.