Ned Lamont
Role at the time: Governor of Connecticut
Statement summary
Lamont accuses prediction markets of disregarding safeguards and misleading consumers about legality.
“they are not adhering to Connecticut’s consumer protection standards”
Lamont's allegations accompanying the September enforcement announcement.
Why we used this label
The case asks whether Connecticut can regulate sports prediction markets as gambling, and the conduct under scrutiny is the state's enforcement. Lamont announced the state's actions against nine prediction-market companies and accused them of not adhering to Connecticut's consumer protection standards, which supports the enforcement, so we labeled it Defended or excused. The closest competing label is Condemned, which here would mean opposing state regulation of the markets; his criticism is aimed at the companies, not at the state's action. Evidence: the governor's announcement.