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 **Source:** Judge Nelson, Ninth Circuit oral arguments, April 16, 2026
 
 Judge Nelson's Rule 40.11 argument creates a preemption paradox: CFR Rule 40.11 prohibits DCMs from listing gaming contracts unless CFTC grants an exception. Nelson stated: 'You go to a casino to make sports bets' when CFTC attorney argued sports contracts don't involve gaming. If sports event contracts are gaming contracts, then CFTC's own rules prohibit rather than authorize them on DCMs, eliminating the preemption shield. This challenges the claim that DCM registration provides preemption protection—it may instead create a regulatory trap where the authorization framework simultaneously forbids the product.
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+## Challenging Evidence
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+**Source:** MultiState legislative tracking, March 23, 2026
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+The Curtis-Schiff bill would eliminate DCM preemption protection through Congressional redefinition of sports contracts as gambling products requiring state licenses. This shows the preemption is not structurally durable—it depends on Congressional forbearance and can be overridden through legislation regardless of court precedent. Bipartisan sponsorship (Curtis R-Utah, Schiff D-California) increases passage probability beyond partisan gaming revenue fights.

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 **Source:** MultiState legislative tracking, March 2026
 
 Curtis-Schiff bipartisan bill explicitly defines sports event contracts as gambling products requiring state licenses, demonstrating that legislative conflation can override CFTC's technical distinction between derivatives and gambling. The bill's scope limitation (targets DCM platforms, silent on on-chain markets) suggests decentralized futarchy governance may remain outside gambling frameworks even if centralized prediction markets are captured.
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+## Extending Evidence
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+**Source:** Curtis-Schiff Prediction Markets Are Gambling Act, March 2026
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+Curtis-Schiff bill demonstrates the conflation risk has materialized into actual legislation, but with important scope limitation: targets CFTC-registered DCM platforms explicitly, does NOT address on-chain futarchy governance markets. This suggests the regulatory capture threat is real but architecturally bounded—decentralized governance markets may remain outside the gambling framework even if centralized prediction markets are reclassified.