Is Kalshi legal in Alaska?
The Ninth Circuit ruling is binding precedent in Alaska. Alaska has no sportsbook, no lottery and no regulator built to enforce it.
Aug 29, 2026Ninth Circuit: what changes in each of its nine states
The ruling binds nine states. Two already have injunctions. Three have no legal sportsbook at all — and those are the ones nobody is writing about.
🏈 August 28, 2026The NFL signed three sportsbooks and zero prediction markets. The gap is not about money.
A partner contract lets the league pull injury and officiating bets off the menu. To reach Kalshi it has to file with the CFTC — and in July it said that process fell “significantly short”.
📊 August 27, 2026FanDuel’s parent found the profitable way to be in prediction markets. It isn’t running one.
$50m of revenue and $50m of adjusted EBITDA from the same activity — while its own product is named in a 70% profit fall.
⚖️ August 26, 2026Oklahoma has no sportsbook to defend. So the tribes are doing it instead.
Legalisation died 21–27 in April. The only body with a claim against Kalshi here is a gaming compact, not a regulator.
⚖️ August 25, 2026Rhode Island sued both. Then the federal regulator sued Rhode Island.
Three lawsuits in eight days, no ruling in any of them, and a state that keeps 51% of every online sports betting dollar.
