Louisiana’s state-court suit against Kalshi and other prediction-market platforms moves to federal court

Louisiana’s enforcement suit against Kalshi, Polymarket US, Robinhood, Coinbase and other prediction-market companies is now in federal court. A notice of removal filed Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, opened case No. 2:26-cv-02614, Louisiana State v. Kalshi Inc. et al., in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the federal docket shows. The court’s public filing feed logged the notice at 9:52 p.m. ET.

Attorney General Liz Murrill filed the case on Nov. 12 in the 21st Judicial District Court in Tangipahoa Parish. Judge Jeffrey Johnson granted an ex parte temporary restraining order at 3:48 p.m. that day. It names 31 entities and bars them from offering any “event contract”, which the order also calls a wager, to anyone in Louisiana without a state license and permit. Our story on the order covers its terms.

What the docket shows

The notice itself is not public. It requires a PACER login and was not in the free RECAP archive as of Saturday afternoon, Nov. 14. The public entries do not say which defendant removed the case, whether the others joined, or what grounds the notice gives.

Four more numbered filings followed, along with an initial case assignment. A notice of related cases and a corporate disclosure statement were docketed on Nov. 13. Early on Saturday, at about 3 a.m. ET, two more were logged: one labeled “Vacate” and a request for oral argument. Their text is not public, and the docket does not say what the “Vacate” filing asks the court to set aside. An initial case assignment was entered at 10 a.m. ET Saturday without a judge’s name in the public entry.

What removal does under the statute

The federal removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1446, requires a notice of removal to contain “a short and plain statement of the grounds for removal.” When a case is removed solely under section 1441(a), every defendant properly joined and served must join in or consent. Once the removing party files a copy of the notice with the state court clerk, the state court “shall proceed no further unless and until the case is remanded.” The records we opened do not show whether that copy has been filed in Tangipahoa.

The restraining order does not lapse on removal. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1450, orders entered before removal “shall remain in full force and effect until dissolved or modified by the district court.” By its own terms, the order expires at the same hour on the tenth day after issuance, which by our count is 3:48 p.m. on Nov. 22, unless it is extended for good cause in periods of up to ten days or the defendants consent to a longer one.

The order set a hearing on the state’s motion for a preliminary injunction for Nov. 30 at 9 a.m. “in this Court,” meaning the Tangipahoa court. As of Saturday afternoon, the federal docket listed no hearing on the state’s motion.

Louisiana can ask the federal court to send the case back. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1447, a remand motion based on any defect other than lack of subject-matter jurisdiction must be made within 30 days of the notice. A case must be remanded at any point before final judgment if the court finds it lacks subject-matter jurisdiction, and a remand order generally cannot be appealed.

Four federal cases now

The removed suit joins three other federal cases over Louisiana’s enforcement against prediction markets. The United States and the CFTC sued the state on Nov. 13 in the same court, No. 2:26-cv-02612. Their complaint asks the court to bar the state from “enforcing or seeking to extend” the Nov. 12 order. Their motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction is set for submission on Nov. 17 before Judge Anna St. John, and Underdog and Crypto.com entities have moved to intervene. We covered that suit on Friday.

In Kalshi’s own case against Murrill in the Western District of Louisiana, Kalshi moved orally on Nov. 13 to withdraw its request for a temporary restraining order. Judge Edwards is set to hear its preliminary-injunction motion by videoconference on Nov. 23. QCX LLC, which does business as Polymarket US, has a separate suit against Murrill pending in the Eastern District, No. 2:26-cv-02482. Our Saturday story lays out those dates.

Section 1450 provides that orders issued in a state case before removal stay in effect until the federal court dissolves or modifies them, and as of Saturday afternoon the federal docket showed no order doing either. The state order’s own terms end it on Nov. 22 unless it is extended. None of the claims in any of the cases has been decided.

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