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Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Utah sues Kalshi over alleged illegal event contracts

The state seeks an injunction, restitution and recovery of profits from specified Utah wagers.

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Kalshi co-founder Tarek Mansour speaking on a stage at Web Summit in Lisbon
Tarek Mansour at Web Summit in Lisbon, November 3, 2021. File photo, resized; display cropped. This is not a photograph of the Utah lawsuit. Photo: Diarmuid Greene / Web Summit via Sportsfile · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons / Web Summit

Utah Attorney General Derek Brown filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to stop Kalshi from offering specified event contracts to Utah users and to recover money the state says the business made from illegal gambling, Utah News Dispatch reported. The complaint was filed in 3rd District Court. [1]

The state asks for injunctions, restitution and recovery of profits. Those are requests to the court, not damages already awarded. Kalshi has argued that its federally regulated exchange falls under federal oversight rather than state gambling restrictions. [1]

The filing follows an August federal court ruling that allowed Utah to enforce its gambling laws against Kalshi. KUER reported that it had requested comment from the company on the new lawsuit. [2]

Sources

  1. Utah News Dispatch · Utah sues Kalshi over alleged illegal event contracts, October 20, 2026
  2. KUER · Utah sues prediction market site Kalshi, October 20, 2026
  3. Utah complaint · prayer for relief

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