2026 Membership Book FINAL

Case: 25-1922 Document: 83 Page: 29 Date Filed: 09/24/2025

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So Dodd-Frank, you know, happens in the wake of the

2 UIGEA, and the wake of Congress's recognition that this sort of

3 conduct, even though broadly, you know, primarily, of course,

4 it is still true that states primarily have the authority to

5 regulate gaming, just not in the narrow application here.

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JUDGE CHAGARES: All right. Thank you.

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MR. HAVEMANN: Thank you.

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JUDGE CHAGARES: Do you have anything else, Judge

9 Porter? Judge Roth, do you have anything else?

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JUDGE ROTH: Nothing further. Thank you.

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JUDGE CHAGARES: Okay. Thank you. Thank you,

12 counsel, we'll hear rebuttal.

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MR. EHRLICH: Thank you, Your Honor.

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JUDGE CHAGARES: Sure.

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MR. EHRLICH: I'd like to make five hopefully fairly

16 brief points, two on swap and three on preemption.

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First on swap, I think, again, we heard from the other

18 side. Don't worry. Nothing to see here. CFTC is just

19 controlling what's on their designated contract markets. I've

20 never heard an explanation of how that works with the statute.

21 Section 2E makes it illegal for persons to trade swaps outside

22 of designated contract markets. Section 6D(a) talks about how

23 companies have to register in order to accept swaps. So our

24 casinos are not registered, for example, and then 13A makes it

25 a crime to trade -- to willfully violate the Commodity Exchange

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