New York lawsuit accuses Polymarket of running illegal sports gambling platform

A New York man has filed a proposed class action lawsuit in federal court accusing the operators of the Polymarket website of running an illegal online sports gambling platform while presenting it as a lawful “prediction market.”

The complaint, filed February 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, was brought by Lorenzo Miro San Diego. He says he is suing on his own behalf and on behalf of others who used the platform. The defendants named in the case are Blockratize...