TLDR A federal judge barred Kalshi from offering sports contracts on two California tribes’ lands. The order covers sports from baseball and football to chess, esports and UFC. The tribes must hand over boundary maps by Nov. 13. Kalshi must report its compliance steps within 21 days. The ruling follows a Ninth Circuit win for the tribes under federal gaming law.
Kalshi now faces a court order to keep sports event contracts off the lands of two California tribes. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley granted the preliminary injunction on Nov. 4 in the Northern District of California.
The order turns a voluntary step by Kalshi into a legal requirement. The company had already said it was blocking sports trading on the tribes’ lands, but the tribes argued those blocks did not work well enough.
The case was brought by Blue Lake Rancheria and Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians. The injunction applies to Kalshi Inc. and KalshiEX.
What the Court Order Requires
The injunction covers any sports contract that would “facially involve, relate to, or reference” a long list of sports. These include baseball, tennis, pickleball, soccer, basketball, football, golf, chess, esports, hockey, motorsports, boxing, wrestling and Ultimate Fighting Championship events.
The ban applies only to the plaintiff tribes’ lands. It does not stop Kalshi from offering sports contracts across the rest of California.
The order takes effect right away and sets no delayed start date. It also does not tell Kalshi which location-blocking technology it must use.
The tribes must give boundary maps of their lands to Kalshi by Nov. 13. Kalshi must then report the steps it has taken to comply within 21 days of the order.
In an Oct. 14 joint status report, Kalshi said it had worked with GeoComply to block sports