Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luiz Fux scheduled a public hearing for November 3, 2026, on the provisional measure banning fixed-odds sports betting and online casino games. His October 26 order did not rule on requests to suspend the ban. All 85 betting licenses had lapsed on October 25, and Congress faces an initial November 23 deadline to vote on the measure, extendable once by 60 days.
The hearing will include government officials, industry groups and invited football clubs, but no individual betting operators. The industry groups challenging the ban say the shutdown harms legal certainty and causes losses of billions of reais; the government has asked Fux to keep the ban in force. The joint committee required to review the measure had not yet been installed, according to Senate records.
