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

Status as of 14 November 2026: Kalshi's sports, election and entertainment contracts are blocked for anyone located in Nevada by order of the First Judicial District Court in Carson City.

• Controlling order: preliminary injunction granted from the bench on 3 April 2026, written order 18 May 2026 (not retrieved), Judge Woodbury, 26 OC 00050 1B.
• Compliance terms: stipulated order of 24 July 2026 requires multi-source geofencing by 12 August 2026 or USD 120,000 per day; whether any penalty has been assessed is not confirmed in the court record.
• Federal court: the Ninth Circuit affirmed on 28 August 2026 (No. 25-7516); rehearing reported denied 3 or 4 November 2026, order not retrieved.
• Next date: 7 December 2026, Supreme Court responses on three certiorari petitions.

Nevada is the only state with preliminary injunctions in force against three operators: Kalshi, Polymarket US and Coinbase, all from the First Judicial District Court in Carson City in 2026.

This page covers the court status of event contracts in Nevada and every gambling lawsuit in Nevada courts or before its gaming regulators. A complaint states one side's allegations; only the court's orders decide anything, and every status here carries the date it was checked.

Thirteen steps in two courts; the preliminary injunction of 3 April 2026 (written 18 May 2026) is the order in force. Rehearing reported denied 3 or 4 November 2026, order not retrieved.

Is Kalshi legal in Nevada? What the courts have ordered

As of 14 November 2026 Kalshi may not offer sports, election or entertainment event contracts to anyone located in Nevada, under a preliminary injunction of the First Judicial District Court in Carson City. Kalshi says its contracts are swaps that the CFTC alone regulates under 7 U.S.C. 2(a)(1)(A), and Nevada says they are unlicensed gambling.

Nevada's order is part of a national picture, set out for all states in the record of gambling lawsuits in the United States. Michigan (preliminary injunction 1 September 2026) and Washington (final order 13 August 2026) have orders against one operator each.

The Carson City injunction and the geofencing order (26 OC 00050 1B)

The State of Nevada ex rel. Nevada Gaming Control Board sued KalshiEX LLC in the First Judicial District Court on 17 February 2026 under NRS 463.160, 463.350, 465.086 and 465.092, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief under NRS 463.343, 463.346 and 30.030. The table lists the steps in date order.

The written order of 18 May 2026 was not retrieved, and the trackers' date of 28 April for it is wrong. Under the stipulation Kalshi could avoid the USD 120,000 per day by filing a sworn affidavit, with penalties set by the court; whether any penalty was assessed is not confirmed in the court record.

The federal case and the Ninth Circuit ruling of 28 August 2026

Kalshi sued first: KalshiEX LLC v. Hendrick, now v. Assad, filed 28 March 2025 in the District of Nevada, claimed that the Commodity Exchange Act preempts Nevada gaming law. The defendants were the Board, the Gaming Commission and the attorney general, with the Nevada Resort Association as intervenor.

The Third Circuit read the Act the other way on 6 April 2026 in a New Jersey case, which created the split now before the Supreme Court.

The Ninth Circuit held that Kalshi showed no likelihood that the Act preempts Nevada gaming law as applied to sports contracts, and the same decision covers the Crypto.com and Robinhood appeals. The question of how a sports contract fits the swaps definition is answered in how is Kalshi legal.

Polymarket, Coinbase, Robinhood and Crypto.com in Nevada

Kalshi is not the only operator under a Nevada order: the Board's first state-court action was against Polymarket, filed 16 January 2026 (26 OC 00012 1B), with a TRO on 29 January and a preliminary injunction against QCX LLC d/b/a Polymarket US granted from the bench on 29 May 2026.

Polymarket suspended Nevada event contracts on 31 January 2026, and the date of the written order is not confirmed.

Coinbase was sued on 2 February 2026 (26 OC 00030 1B), with a TRO on 5 February and a preliminary injunction on 26 March 2026; its federal countersuit (D. Nev. 2:26-cv-00256, filed 4 February 2026 per the court tracker) has no confirmed status.

Crypto.com sued in 2025 (2:25-cv-00978) and Robinhood on 19 August 2025 (2:25-cv-01541); each lost in federal court and stopped Nevada sports contracts, per press, and each has a petition at the Supreme Court. The player suit Warga v. Winklevoss against Gemini (Clark County A-26-944755-C) was filed on 22 April 2026.

Nevada's 2 prediction market lawsuits are among the largest state groups in our record, behind only New York's, and the full category is in prediction market lawsuits.

What happens next: the Supreme Court petitions

Three certiorari petitions on sports event contracts are pending; the Supreme Court has granted none and denied none as of 14 November 2026. The "declined on 1 October" claim in circulation is wrong.

Appeals that can land at any time are collected in pending appeals and high court gambling cases.

Open settlements covering Nevada residents

No open gambling settlement covers Nevada residents as of 14 November 2026. The Pulsz six-state settlement covers Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, New Jersey and Massachusetts, the High 5 Games settlement covers Washington players and the New York attorney general's VGW redemption covers New York.

Two Nevada settlements are closed or paid: the USD 45,000,000 MGM Resorts data breach settlement closed its claims on 3 June 2025, and the USD 70,000,000 Wynn Resorts securities settlement made its first distribution on 29 April 2026.

Filing a claim in any settlement is free, and we are not a law firm and not an administrator; every open claim is listed in open gambling class action settlements by deadline.

Gambling lawsuits in Nevada: every case we track

Our record holds 4 gambling lawsuits in Nevada courts or before Nevada's gaming regulators: 2 prediction market cases, 1 casino data breach cases, 0 disciplinary complaints, 0 securities suits, 0 industry disputes and 0 antitrust class action, with the rest in other categories.

The table shows each with court and docket, filing date, status and its date, and any money figure as the record gives it.

The same records download as CSV from the open data page under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Nevada's loss-recovery position

No case in Nevada's courts uses a loss-recovery statute, and no Nevada loss-recovery statute appears in our record; the statutes that do appear belong to other states, such as Washington's RCW 4.24.070, Kentucky's KRS 372.040 and Ohio's Rev.

Code 3763.02. That is a statement about our record, not about Nevada law, and the statutes by state are in gambling loss recovery statutes by US state.

The Nevada statutes that do appear are the Deceptive Trade Practices Act in Dupee v. Playtika, pleaded by an Ohio player against a Nevada-based defendant in the Northern District of Ohio, and the Consumer Fraud Act in the Caesars 2026 and Boyd data-breach complaints.

Warga v. Winklevoss is the only player suit in a Nevada court, and its claims are not confirmed in the court record. Whether a player can sue an operator at all is covered in can you sue a casino or sportsbook.

Sweepstakes casino status in Nevada

No Nevada court case against a sweepstakes casino is in our record as of 14 November 2026. A list compiled by Settlement Insight names ten states that ban dual-currency sweepstakes casinos and does not include Nevada, but it has not been checked against the chaptered laws.

Trade press reports Nevada SB 256 (2025) as a ban; it is not in our verified list, and the state-by-state record is in sweepstakes casino bans by state.

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

Nevada enforces through two routes: the Gaming Control Board sues unlicensed operators in the First Judicial District Court, as in the three prediction-market injunctions above, and it files disciplinary complaints against licensees that the Gaming Commission resolves by adopting a stipulation as its order.

The largest of these are the Wynn Resorts fine of USD 20 million in February 2019, reported by press with no case record in ours, and the four below. Enforcement cases of this kind are collected in regulators and attorneys general in court.

Disciplinary complaints resolved by stipulation

0 complaints in our record ended in a stipulation the Commission adopted as its order, each an administrative disciplinary complaint resolved by stipulation.

Federal cases about Las Vegas casinos filed in California

The bookmaker and money-transmitting scandal behind the Resorts World, MGM and Wynn complaints was prosecuted in federal court in California, not Nevada; these five cases belong to the California page and are listed here because their subject is Las Vegas.

The outcomes are as the record states them. How other operators fared in criminal court is in criminal cases against gambling operators.

Courts and where to find the dockets

Nevada gambling litigation runs through five courts and one commission, and most of the orders on this page are public PDFs. The table says where each one sits, and the statewide view across all states is in gambling lawsuits by US state.

Nevada is a plaintiff state in these cases, not a CFTC defendant: the CFTC's suits name other states, as the matrix of states suing Kalshi and states sued by the CFTC shows.

Questions people ask

Why is trading on Kalshi not allowed in Nevada?

A Nevada court ordered it: the First Judicial District Court granted a preliminary injunction on 3 April 2026 in a suit the Board brought under Nevada's unlicensed-gaming statute, and the Ninth Circuit held on 28 August 2026 that Kalshi showed no likelihood that federal law preempts the state's rules. The federal-state conflict is explained in CFTC jurisdiction vs state gambling law.

Is Polymarket legal in Nevada?

Polymarket US is blocked in Nevada by the preliminary injunction of 29 May 2026, after suspending Nevada contracts on 31 January 2026. The case is Nevada Gaming Control Board v. Polymarket.

Can I use Robinhood or Crypto.com event contracts in Nevada?

No order compels either company, but both stopped offering sports contracts in Nevada after losing in federal court, per press reports, and both have petitions at the Supreme Court (26-338 and 26-344). Their responses are due 7 December 2026.

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. Warga is against Gemini, not Kalshi, and the consolidated class action against Kalshi in the Southern District of New York is in Kalshi lawsuits.

Where to find the other states

• New Jersey has the opposite outcome, a federal injunction for Kalshi affirmed by the Third Circuit: is Kalshi legal in New Jersey.
• New York's federal court denied Kalshi an injunction on 7 July 2026 and the attorney general sued on 31 July 2026: is Kalshi legal in New York.
• Every other state is in is Kalshi legal? court status in every state.

Out of scope on this page

• Whether a product is allowed only in Las Vegas
• Which Nevada cities have casinos
• Which states prohibit sports betting
• How to use any operator

This page covers court cases only.

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Last checked 14 November 2026. Next scheduled check: 7 December 2026 (Supreme Court responses).