Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

Enforcement activity in Iowa this period runs on two tracks. On September 8, 2026, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa denied Kalshi Inc.'s motion for a preliminary injunction against the state's application of its gambling statute to sports-related event contracts, finding Kalshi unlikely to succeed on its claim that the Commodity Exchange Act preempts Iowa gambling law as applied to those contracts. The ruling is at the preliminary-injunction stage only; the case continues, and no formal follow-on step by the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission or the Attorney General against Kalshi had surfaced in a T1 publication as of this writing. Separately, the Commission's docket shows a pending hearing against Betfair Interactive US LLC, operating as FanDuel Sportsbook, concerning impermissible wagers under Iowa Code section 99F, corroborating an earlier Commission record noting FanDuel no longer runs a retail sportsbook presence in the state. The two tracks together show the state's statutory reach being actively tested at its federal boundary while ordinary licensee-conduct enforcement continues under section 99F.