Docket last checked November 8, 2026. Snapshot — not legal advice.
As of November 8, 2026, the legality of prediction markets in Connecticut is unresolved — litigation is ongoing with no final ruling yet. Connecticut status and cases →
Overview
The first platform to sue over Connecticut’s September 10, 2026 cease-and-desist orders. Underdog’s exchange arm filed on September 15, 2026, five days after it received one, attaching the order as its first exhibit and asking for a declaration that the Commodity Exchange Act preempts Connecticut’s gambling law as applied to its sports event contracts, and a permanent injunction. It first drew Judge Stefan R. Underhill, who on September 24 transferred it to Judge Vernon D. Oliver — putting it with every other Connecticut prediction-market case. The state appeared on September 21. No injunction motion appears on the public docket. (Caption, docket and transfer confirmed via CourtListener.)
Changes
September 2026
Schedule
Underdog’s Connecticut suit was transferred to Judge Oliver, who now has every Connecticut prediction-market case.
Underdog became the first platform to sue over Connecticut’s September 10 cease-and-desist orders, seeking a declaration that federal law preempts the state’s gambling law.
Underdog sues Connecticut’s Attorney General and consumer-protection regulators over the September 10 cease-and-desist.
September 24, 2026
Judge Underhill transfers the case to Judge Oliver.
What's next: The defendants waived formal service on October 8, 2026. A docket entry recorded as a stay was made on October 23; its text is not on the public docket, so whether it is a motion or an order, and what it stays, is not yet known. No injunction motion appears on the public docket.
Parties
Plaintiffs
Underdog Exchange DCM, Inc.
UDM, LLC d/b/a Underdog Predict
Defendants
William Tong (Connecticut Attorney General)
Bryan T. Cafferelli (Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection)
Kristofer Gilman (Gaming Director, Department of Consumer Protection)
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