Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

Enforcement activity ran on two tracks. The Attorney General's Office issued cease-and-desist orders to fourteen online sweepstakes-casino operators in November 2025, directing them to exit Minnesota by December 1, 2025, using the state's general gambling-misdemeanor statutes (Minnesota Statute 609.75 through 609.76) rather than a dedicated sweepstakes law. That enforcement theory remains available even though Senate File 4474, which would have extended liability to payment processors, geolocation vendors, and affiliates, failed to reach a House floor vote before the May 18, 2026 adjournment. Separately, the Attorney General is now defending Minnesota Statute 609.7615, the felony prediction-market ban enacted as 2026 Minn. Laws ch. 97, art. 8, against a CFTC lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction on Supremacy Clause preemption grounds ahead of the statute's August 1, 2026 effective date; the Attorney General filed its opposition brief on June 18, 2026, arguing that prediction markets are gambling that the state may lawfully exclude. The outcome of that litigation was unresolved as of the current dispatch and represents the highest-stakes open enforcement question in the jurisdiction.