Kalshi will be allowed to keep offering its contracts in Indian Country, as a federal judge denied three California tribes an injunction, despite acknowledging that the prediction market “may have found a way around prohibitions on interstate gambling.”
Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday rejected a bid by Blue Lake Rancheria, the Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians, and the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians for an injunction that would have required Kalshi to stop offering sports event contracts on their lands.
Judge Corley did so despite appearing to be sympathetic to the tribes’ arguments on moral grounds, both during a hearing in October, and in her opinion denying the injunction.
