商品期货交易委员会起诉阿肯色州：阻止州政府叫停 Kalshi 事件合约交易
美国商品期货交易委员会（CFTC）11月13日宣布，已向联邦法院起诉阿肯色州及州总检察长 Tim Griffin，要求阻止该州叫停事件合约交易，并阻止州方对在 CFTC 注册的交易所处以最高可达数亿美元的民事罚款。诉状11月12日在阿肯色东区联邦地区法院立案，案号为 4:26-cv-01255-BSM。
争议的源头是州方的一起执法行动。阿肯色州正在州法院对 Kalshi 提起民事执法诉讼，而 Kalshi 是 CFTC 指定的合约市场。总检察长 Tim Griffin 11月4日向 Independence County 巡回法院起诉 Kalshi，称其在阿肯色州从事非法博彩经营，要求叫停其事件合约交易。
CFTC 在诉状中主张，州方针对的事件合约属于《商品交易法》下的互换合约，提供这类合约的交易所是受 CFTC 监管的指定合约市场，州方阻碍 CFTC 注册交易所依法运作的做法被联邦法优先适用规则所排除。CFTC 请求法院发布初步与永久禁令，并作出宣告性裁决。
CFTC 主席 Michael S. Selig 说：「随着预测市场不断证明其在风险管理和为公众提供有关未来的有价值信息方面的价值，阿肯色州却要关停从体育、政治到其他重要世界事件的事件合约。」他说，CFTC 将继续捍卫国会依《商品交易法》授予它的、对这些受联邦监管市场的专属管辖权，不会让州的干预阻挠其监管努力、摧毁受联邦监管的市场。
阿肯色州是 CFTC 就事件合约管辖权起诉的第11个州。CFTC 此前已在四个联邦上诉法院和一个州最高法院就同类争议提交法庭之友意见。截至11月13日，法院尚未就 CFTC 请求的禁令作出公开裁决，州法院对 Kalshi 的案件也不会因联邦诉状的提交而自动中止。
（来源：美国商品期货交易委员会）
CFTC Sues Arkansas to Block State Case Against Kalshi Event Contracts
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on November 13 that it has filed a lawsuit against the State of Arkansas and Attorney General Tim Griffin to block the state's attempts to halt event-contract trading and to impose up to hundreds of millions of dollars in civil penalties on CFTC-registered exchanges. The complaint was docketed on November 12 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas as Case 4:26-cv-01255-BSM.
The dispute began with a state enforcement action. Arkansas is bringing a civil enforcement case in state court against Kalshi, a CFTC-designated contract market. Attorney General Tim Griffin sued Kalshi on November 4 in the Circuit Court of Independence County, calling its operations illegal gambling in Arkansas and seeking to stop its event-contract trading.
In its complaint, the CFTC argues that the event contracts targeted by Arkansas are swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, that the exchanges offering them, including Kalshi, are CFTC-regulated designated contract markets, and that Arkansas's efforts to obstruct CFTC-registered exchanges operating lawfully under the Act are preempted by federal law. The commission seeks preliminary and permanent injunctive relief and a declaratory judgment.
"As prediction markets continue to prove their value in being useful for risk management and providing the public with valuable information about the future, Arkansas seeks to shut down event contracts ranging from sports and politics to other important world events," said Chairman Michael S. Selig. "The CFTC will continue to defend its sole jurisdiction over these federally regulated markets as granted by Congress under the Commodity Exchange Act, and the Commission will not let state interference thwart its regulatory efforts and destroy federally regulated markets."
Arkansas is the 11th state the CFTC has sued over event-contract jurisdiction, and the agency has also filed friend-of-the-court briefs in four federal appeals courts and one state supreme court in similar disputes. As of November 13, no court had publicly granted the requested injunction, and the state's case against Kalshi is not automatically stayed by the federal filing.
(Source: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
来源：美国商品期货交易委员会
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