A preliminary injunction has been granted to halt the Minnesota law that was due to go into effect on Saturday. Siding with a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration, Kalshi, and Polymarket, federal judge Katherine Menendez said the plaintiffs would be harmed by enforcement and that federal law supersedes the ban. [Link: Federal judge blocks Minnesota’s prediction market ban days before it takes effect | https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/minnesota-prediction-market-ban-blocked-federal-judge-rcna589494 | NBC News]

The ruling follows lawsuits by the Justice Department, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Polymarket and Kalshi.

A federal judge ruled that Minnesota's law criminalizing prediction markets would probably violate the federal Commodity Exchange Act.

The preliminary injunction comes as the Justice Department, the CFTC, Kalshi, and Polymarket challenge the law in court.