States and tribal nations press the Supreme Court to rule on sports prediction contracts
Thirty-nine states, D.C., 145 tribal nations, the NFL and Gary Gensler urged the Supreme Court to decide whether sports prediction contracts are swaps. Two of the three appeals courts to rule have called those contracts state-regulated gambling, so platforms on federal licenses still face two possible regulators.
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Trump keeps his tariffs while more than 64% of US adults say he has gone too far
President Trump is keeping his tariffs even as more than 64% of US adults say he has gone too far, up from 58% in January. Importers deciding whether to absorb the duties until the Nov. 3 midterms have little in the record to suggest relief follows the vote.
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Mike Selig's CFTC put one rule into force Friday and proposed another defining event contracts as swaps under its sole oversight, with 30 days for comment. States have won two of three federal appellate rulings so far, and the Supreme Court has been asked to settle the fight.
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Trump named a three-member White House panel to decide whether there is cause to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook, with a closed hearing on Nov. 5. Quartz reported that Cook's last written reply is due Nov. 10, so the route to opening a Fed board seat now runs on a calendar.
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NFL urges the Supreme Court to hear New Jersey's challenge to Kalshi's sports contracts
New Jersey's bid for Supreme Court review of a ruling that shields Kalshi's sports contracts from state gaming law won the NFL's backing in an October 8 brief. The league counts its games as $1.8 billion of $3.3 billion traded on prediction markets on the season's first Sunday, so a ruling would decide who regulates most of that money.
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The NFL asked the Supreme Court to back New Jersey against Kalshi, saying NFL games drew $1.8 billion of the $3.3 billion traded on opening Sunday. A ruling for the states would put the contracts that made up most of that day's trading under state gambling law.
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New York Fed economists estimate Trump's tariffs had raised US consumer goods prices 2.9 points by February 2026. The inflation effect has since peaked, but the higher price level persists and the researchers expect the tariff impact to carry into next year.
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FDA ties any mifepristone restrictions to a safety report due by March 2027
FDA's court-ordered filing schedules a mifepristone safety report for no later than March 2027, ahead of any decision on new restrictions. Abortion opponents hoping to curtail the pill's use quickly condemned a timeline that keeps the review running into 2027.
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Justice Samuel Alito's recusal means a 4-4 Supreme Court split would keep Boulder's climate suit against Exxon Mobil and Suncor alive in state court. Dozens of similar city and county suits turn on the same ruling, and the companies warn the damages could run to billions of dollars.
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Exxon and Suncor stake their Boulder defense on the Constitution's structure
Exxon Mobil and Suncor argue that the Constitution's structure bars Boulder's climate-cost suit from state court, in a case the Supreme Court hears October 5. Vox reports they cite no clause of the text, so the case tests the justices' textualism as much as Boulder's claim.
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SEC plan to scrap Rule 14a-8 would make activism at closed-end funds costlier
Debevoise lawyers say the SEC's September 16 plan to rescind Rule 14a-8 would make activist campaigns at listed closed-end funds and BDCs costlier. After the Supreme Court's June Saba ruling, it would give fund boards a second advantage, though only the ruling is settled law.
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CMS proposes narrowing the 340B markup that can push coinsurance above a hospital's drug cost
CMS has proposed narrowing Medicare's markup on 340B-discounted drugs, whose payments rose $3.6 billion after the Supreme Court ended a lower rate in 2022. An author at HHS argues in STAT that the markup grows with each drug's price and can leave a patient's coinsurance above what the hospital paid.
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee canceled the state's remaining executions this year after Christa Pike survived both 50-milliliter syringes of pentobarbital. The outside review he ordered now has to account for the state's second failed execution of the year.
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Supreme Court weighs whether Boulder can make ExxonMobil and Suncor pay for climate damage
Supreme Court justices hear Boulder's suit against ExxonMobil and Suncor on Monday, a case that could settle dozens of similar local climate claims. At issue for producers is whether climate costs get fought jurisdiction by jurisdiction in state courts or left to federal regulators.
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Supreme Court justices voted 6-3 to let the Trump administration keep making third-country deportations until a merits ruling expected in 2027. At the policy's first-year pace, each month of that wait covers about 2,000 more removals.
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Greer's G20 verdict on trade remedies points toward more unilateral US tariffs
G20 trade ministers ended talks with no deal on excess capacity, as US trade chief Jamieson Greer said nearly all called current remedies inadequate. On the administration's record so far, the next step is more tariffs set in Washington alone.
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Trump's nearly $1 billion pocket rescission reaches $28 million in HHS research grants
President Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion Congress approved, including $28 million in HHS research grants, with five days left in the fiscal year. Congress's auditor calls the tactic illegal, and the Supreme Court's one ruling on it rested on foreign-affairs powers absent from domestic grants.
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The proposal landed the same day Apple asked a judge to order settlement talks Epic had already refused, and the same day the Supreme Court refused to pause the case. Any app with a web checkout now has a number.
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More than $100 billion in tariff money has gone back to importers, adding an estimated 0.2 point to third-quarter GDP. It does not repeat, and much of it is already promised to someone else.
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Sports contracts run above 80% of a market that went from $2bn in August 2025 to $38.5bn. Whether the justices take New Jersey's petition this fall will decide which compliance bill the industry pays.
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