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US gaming lawyer Daniel Wallach says a Nevada state court-issued restraining order against Kalshi appears imminent, preventing it from offering sports-related contracts. A federal appeals court has cleared Nevada state authorities to enforce a temporary restraining order against Kalshi, blocking its sports-event contracts. The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court on Thursday denied Kalshi’s emergency request to stay a lower court proceeding, meaning the case returns to federal court and allows Nevada regulators to take action. Gaming lawyer Daniel Wallach said a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Kalshi now appears imminent, and added that it wouldn’t be able to operate in Nevada for at least 14 days until a preliminary injunction hearing is held: Read more

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a legal effort by Kalshi to stave off an expected temporary restraining order from the state of Nevada.

Former OpenSea employee Nathaniel Chastain has successfully appealed his conviction for wire fraud and money laundering. A US federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea manager found guilty of wire fraud and money laundering for using insider information to trade non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In a Thursday decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the jury was improperly instructed and could have convicted Chastain for unethical conduct rather than misappropriating a traditional property interest, a requirement under federal fraud statutes. “Chastain argues that the district court erred by instructing the jury that it could find him guilty of defrauding OpenSea of its property if he misappropriated an intangible interest unconnected to traditional property rights. He maintains that this error affected the jury’s decision. We agree,” the court decisions reads. Read more

The UK Court of Appeals dismissed a high-profile challenge by BSV Claims Ltd, which sought up to £9 billion in damages from Binance and other exchanges over the 2019 delisting of Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV). BSV Claims, acting on behalf of around 243,000 BSV holders, alleged that coordinated delisting actions by Binance, Kraken, and ShapeShift, […] The post UK Court of Appeals dismisses BSV lawsuit against Binance, others over 2019 delisting appeared first on CryptoSlate.