{"id":46041,"date":"2026-07-22T12:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/online-esports-betting-could-be-blocked-in-washington-state-after-kalshi-ruling\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:57:14","slug":"online-esports-betting-could-be-blocked-in-washington-state-after-kalshi-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/online-esports-betting-could-be-blocked-in-washington-state-after-kalshi-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Online esports betting could be blocked in Washington state after Kalshi ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington state residents may soon be prohibited from wagering on esports online as a judge issued a negative ruling against Kalshi.\u00a0 Judge John McHale granted the state a preliminary injunction against Kalshi in its lawsuit against the company.\u00a0 In the ruling, Judge McHale said that Kalshi conducts illegal gambling activities in violation of Washington state gambling laws and that the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) does not offer preemption&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/kalshi-ruling-washington-esports-betting\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington state residents may soon be prohibited from wagering on esports online as a judge issued a negative ruling against Kalshi.\u00a0 Judge John McHale granted the state a preliminary injunction against Kalshi in its lawsuit against the company.\u00a0 In the ruling, Judge McHale said that Kalshi conducts illegal gambling activities in violation of Washington state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}