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Cir. 2023), cert. denied , 144 S. Ct. 2671 (2024). IGRA’s implementing regulations also expressly state that tribes can regulate online gaming pursuant to the terms of their IGRA compacts. See 25 C.F.R. § 293.26. In Connecticut, the Secretary of the Interior specifically approved of the terms within the Connecticut Tribes’ tribal-state agreements that provide for on- reservation online gaming. See Mohegan Agreement at 1; Mashantucket Pequot Agreement at 1. IGRA, therefore, clearly recognizes tribes’ authority to regulate internet gaming. In a sister case, Kalshi has also argued that the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (“UIGEA”), not tribal-state IGRA agreements or state gaming law, solely governs the online gaming aspect of its sports-betting contracts, and UIGEA excludes DCM transactions from its definition of “bet or wager.” See Pl. Memo. Supp. Prelim. Inj. at 17–18, KalshiEX LLC v. Cafferelli , No. 3:25-cv-02016-VDO (D. Conn. Dec. 5, 2025), ECF No. 30-1. By claiming that the exclusion for DCM transactions from the definition of “bet or wager” in 31 U.S.C. § 5362 “underscores” Congress’s intent to preempt all state (and tribal) gaming laws via the CEA, Kalshi implied that UIGEA also somehow preempts IGRA and all tribal-state IGRA agreements. Id. But this ignores UIGEA’s own language that “[n]o provision of this subchapter shall be construed as altering, limiting, or extending any Federal or State law or Tribal-State compact prohibiting, permitting, or regulating gambling within the United States.” 31 U.S.C. § 5361(b). UIGEA “prevents using the internet to circumvent existing state and federal gambling laws, but it does not create any additional substantive prohibitions.” California v. Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel , 898 F.3d 960, 965 (9th Cir. 2018). While UIGEA may provide insight as to what the term “sports betting” generally means, its statutory exceptions should not be imported wholesale into IGRA. See 152 Cong. Rec. H8029–30 (daily ed. Sep. 29, 2006) (statement of Rep. Leach) (explaining UIGEA’s definition of a “bet or wager” does not change the principle that “if a
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