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California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, published a legal opinion on Thursday indicating that the fantasy sports platforms online in the state are now illegal.
The opinion of 33 pages of Bronta establishes that fantasy sports platforms are illegal because they imply betting on sports. The apparently only applies to daily fantasy sports, but not to the fantasy sports leagues of the season.
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“Like traditional sports bets, daily fantasy sports games allow participants to earn or lose money based on the outcome of sporting events played by third -party athletes,” says the opinion.
“The fact that the operator is not betting against players does not mean that players do not bet on each other.”
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The sports game has been illegal in California, but fantasy sports have been a legal gray area. But online fantasy sports platforms have operated in the state for more than a dozen years, and the product has generated billions of dollars at that time.
In a state election of 2022, voters overwhelmingly rejected a measure to legalize online sports bets. Then, in 2023, the legislator of the State of the Republican Party of California, Scott Wilk, sent a letter to the State’s Department of Justice, requesting a legal opinion on fantasy daily sports.
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Now, that opinion has been published, and could cause interruptions in the state’s fantasy sports industry.
