Is Kalshi Legal in Michigan? Court Status and Every Gambling Lawsuit in Michigan

Status as of 14 November 2026: Kalshi's sports event contracts are blocked for anyone located in Michigan by a preliminary injunction of the Ingham County Circuit Court signed 1 September 2026.

• Order: Ingham County Circuit Court, No. 26-1087-CZ, in force until final judgment; written order not retrieved, terms from the Attorney General's release.
• Penalty: USD 500,000 per day for violating the geofencing injunction.
• Contempt: motion filed 29 September 2026 per press, 7 October per the tracker; hearing not read from the docket.
• Next date: 24 November 2026.

Seven steps in two courts; the preliminary injunction signed 1 September 2026 is the order in force, written order not retrieved.

Michigan is one of three states with a court injunction in force against Kalshi's sports contracts, and the one with a USD 500,000 daily penalty. Three other operators have stopped or agreed to stop without an order against them.

This page holds the court status and the 0 gambling lawsuits in our Michigan record. A complaint states one side's allegations; only the court's orders decide anything.

Is Kalshi legal in Michigan? What the courts have ordered

As of 14 November 2026 Kalshi may not offer sports event contracts to anyone located in Michigan, under a preliminary injunction of the Ingham County Circuit Court in force until final judgment. The orders in our record say nothing about its other markets.

The Attorney General pleads the Lawful Sports Betting Act and the Gaming Control and Revenue Act. Kalshi answers that the Commodity Exchange Act gives federal regulators exclusive jurisdiction over swaps on registered exchanges (7 U.S.C. 2(a)(1)(A)).

Michigan's orders are one part of a national record. Read them next to the wider picture of gambling lawsuits in the United States, where each state has its own court, order and date.

The Ingham County injunction and the geofencing order (26-1087-CZ)

The People of the State of Michigan, by Attorney General Dana Nessel, sued KalshiEX LLC in the Ingham County Circuit Court on 3 March 2026 under the Lawful Sports Betting Act, alleging unlicensed internet sports betting. Judge Rosemarie E. Aquilina presides.

The injunction requires Kalshi to block anyone in Michigan from sports event contracts using a state-licensed geolocation provider. The record does not hold the written order, so every term here comes from the Attorney General's release. The contempt ruling is not in the record.

Removal, remand and the Sixth Circuit

Kalshi removed the case to the Western District of Michigan on 5 March 2026; Judge Maloney remanded it, and Kalshi's appeal of the remand, Sixth Circuit No. 26-1639, is in abeyance. Those dates come from the court tracker.

On 25 September 2026 the Sixth Circuit held 3 to 0 in the Ohio and Tennessee cases (Nos. 26-3196 and 26-5235) that sports event contracts are not swaps and that the Commodity Exchange Act does not preempt state gambling law.

Kalshi's en banc petition of 9 October 2026 is undecided, and the Third Circuit ruled the other way on 6 April 2026. The swaps question is explained in how is Kalshi legal. The Ohio ruling does not decide Michigan's case, which sits in state court.

Polymarket, Robinhood and Coinbase in Michigan

Kalshi is the only operator under a Michigan court order; the other three stopped their Michigan sports contracts after losing or stipulating in federal court. Every date below is per the court tracker.

• Polymarket US: W.D. Mich. 1:26-cv-00710, filed 4 March 2026; injunction denied 17 June; appeal No. 26-1552; halt announced 29 October 2026.
• Robinhood: W.D. Mich. 1:26-cv-00730, filed 4 March 2026; stipulation approved 4 September 2026 to stop Michigan sports contracts.
• Coinbase: E.D. Mich. 2:25-cv-14092, Judge Kumar, filed 18 December 2025; injunction denied 6 August 2026; agreed on 7 October 2026 to stop.

Compare all prediction market lawsuits: 0 are Michigan cases, among 7 nationwide.

What happens next: the contempt hearing of 24 November 2026

The next date is 24 November 2026, when Judge Aquilina is to hear the Attorney General's motion to hold Kalshi in contempt over advertising that reached Michigan residents; the hearing date comes from press and the tracker, not from the docket. No outcome is predicted here.

The Supreme Court has issued no order. Track the wider docket in pending appeals and high court gambling cases.

Open settlements covering Michigan residents

No open gambling settlement covers Michigan residents as of 14 November 2026. The three open claims cover other states. Filing a claim in any settlement is free; we are not a law firm and not an administrator.

No Michigan case in the record has settled, and Davis v. BetMGM is back in Wayne County with nothing paid beyond USD 100,000 in March 2021. Every claim window is in open gambling class action settlements by deadline.

Gambling lawsuits in Michigan: every case we track

Our record holds 0 gambling lawsuits in Michigan courts or brought by Michigan, among them 0 prediction market cases, 0 patron case over withheld winnings and 0 tribal case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The full table is also available as a CSV, with stable ids and a change log, through our open data under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Michigan's loss-recovery position

No Michigan loss-recovery statute appears in our record, and no Michigan player has sued an operator under one; the Michigan case about a player's money is Davis v.

BetMGM, a contract, conversion and fraud claim over unpaid winnings. That is an absence in our record, not a statement about Michigan law. Other states have such statutes, listed in gambling loss recovery statutes by US state.

In Davis, the Supreme Court of Michigan (No. 166281, 22 July 2025, Justice Zahra, Justice Hood not participating) held that the Lawful Internet Gaming Act does not abrogate common-law claims and gives the Gaming Control Board no power to decide them.

The Court of Appeals (348 Mich App 402, 2023, 2 to 1) and the circuit court had held otherwise.

The opinion states the amounts: an account balance of USD 3,289,500.75 by 23 March 2021, a complaint pleading winnings of USD 3,288,616.42, and USD 100,000 withdrawn and paid on 21 March 2021. BetMGM calls the balance a malfunction, a defense still to be tried. Players' routes are in can you sue a casino or sportsbook.

Sweepstakes casino status in Michigan

No Michigan court case against a sweepstakes casino is in our record as of 14 November 2026, and Michigan is not among the ten states with a statutory sweepstakes ban in the list we track.

That list comes from Settlement Insight and has not been checked against the chaptered laws. We hold no Michigan cease-and-desist letter either. The comparison is in sweepstakes casino bans by state.

State enforcement: attorney general, Gaming Control Board and tribal cases

Michigan enforces through the Attorney General in the Ingham County Circuit Court, as in the Kalshi case, and through the Gaming Control Board, which appears in our record as a defendant in Coinbase's suit and as the body whose exclusive jurisdiction the Supreme Court of Michigan rejected in Davis.

The pattern across states is in regulators and attorneys general in court.

Davis v. BetMGM: the Supreme Court of Michigan on suing an online casino

Davis is the first state supreme court ruling that online casino patrons may sue operators in court over withheld winnings; the merits of BetMGM's malfunction defense have not been tried.

The full account of this kind of dispute is in can you sue a casino or sportsbook that refuses to pay. The case page is Davis v. BetMGM.

Michigan v. Bay Mills: tribal immunity at the U.S. Supreme Court

In Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community the U.S. Supreme Court held on 27 May 2014, 5 to 4, that tribal sovereign immunity bars the state's suit to close an off-reservation casino, because IGRA abrogates immunity only for class III gaming on Indian lands.

The decision (No. 12-515, 572 U.S. 782, Justice Kagan) left states three routes: sue tribal officials, prosecute individuals or negotiate waivers.

Courts and where to find the dockets

Michigan gambling litigation on this page runs through the Ingham County Circuit Court, two federal districts, the Sixth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Michigan and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Compare other states in gambling lawsuits by US state, where each state's cases sit side by side.

Michigan is a plaintiff state against Kalshi and not a CFTC defendant. The CFTC's suits name other states; see states suing Kalshi and states sued by the CFTC for the matrix.

Questions people ask

Did the BetMGM player win her USD 3 million?

No: the Supreme Court of Michigan decided on 22 July 2025 only that she may sue BetMGM in court; the USD 3.29 million balance has not been paid and the malfunction defense has not been tried. Only USD 100,000 was withdrawn and paid in March 2021.

Is Kalshi considered gambling in Michigan?

The Sixth Circuit said on 25 September 2026 that sports event contracts are not swaps, while the Third Circuit said the opposite on 6 April 2026. Michigan's own case is pending in state court. The question has its own page: are sports event contracts swaps.

Can I still trade non-sports markets on Kalshi in Michigan?

The orders in our record concern sports event contracts only, and no order on other markets is in the record. Competitor pages that say "accessible for non-sports markets" describe app availability, not a court order.

Is there a Kalshi class action or payout?

No Kalshi case has produced a payout and no class is certified as of 14 November 2026. The consolidated class action in New York has no settlement. See all Kalshi lawsuits.

Where to find the other states

• Nevada has a state court injunction with a USD 120,000 daily penalty: is Kalshi legal in Nevada.
• Ohio is the Sixth Circuit case: is Kalshi legal in Ohio.
• Every state in one list: is Kalshi legal? court status in every state.

Out of scope on this page

This page covers court cases only, so it does not answer:

• Whether sports betting is legal in Michigan beyond the Act the Attorney General's suit pleads.
• Which sport is bet on most, or where DraftKings is not allowed.
• How to use any operator.

Last checked 14 November 2026. Next scheduled check: 24 November 2026 (contempt hearing) and 7 December 2026 (Supreme Court responses). How every case on this page is sourced and checked.