Luis Antonio Johonsom di Salvo, President of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region (TRF3), suspended on 6 November 2026 the Casa de Apostas injunction that had let CDA Gaming Ltda. resume fixed-odds betting in Brazil despite the federal ban.
The decision, signed at 6:37 p.m., granted the federal government’s request to extend to CDA Gaming the effects of his October suspension of the Stake Brasil injunction, according to the TRF3’s announcement. It was issued in the same suspension case as the Stake ruling, No. 5032238-54.2026.4.03.0000.
CDA Gaming and its Brazil brands
CDA Gaming runs three betting brands in Brazil: Casa de Apostas, Betsul and Jogo Online. All three operated under one federal authorisation, Portaria SPA/MF No. 255/2025, for which the company paid R$30m. It was valid until 31 December 2029, until Provisional Measure (MP) 1,394/2026 extinguished it with the other 84 federal authorisations on 25 October.
Judge Adriana Pileggi de Soveral of the TRF3’s Third Panel restored that authorisation on 3 November in interlocutory appeal No. 5034200-15.2026.4.03.0000, after the 26th Federal Civil Court of São Paulo had refused the company an injunction. Her order lifted the MP’s effects for CDA Gaming only, and told the authorities to restore its domains and payment services under a daily fine of R$200,000. Casa de Apostas went back online on 5 November, and Betsul’s site carried a legal notice citing the TRF3 ruling.
Di Salvo’s decision removes that order’s effects, so the three brands fall back under the ban that took every licensed betting site offline on 6 October.
Why the Casa de Apostas injunction was suspended
Di Salvo found a manifest public interest and a concrete risk of serious harm to public order, according to the TRF3. He wrote that consumer and bettor protection policy has to apply uniformly to all operators, and that the injunction created “regulatory instability incompatible with the management of a public policy of national scope” (translated from Portuguese).
He also warned of a possible multiplier effect if other operators won similar orders, and noted that the betting question and the MP are already before the Supreme Federal Court (STF). The suspension rests on Article 15 of Law 12,016/2009, which lets a court president suspend lower injunctions at the request of a public body.
Same route as the Stake case
The government used the same mechanism against Stake a month earlier. On 9 October, di Salvo overturned the Stake Brasil injunction granted the day before by Judge Cristiane Farias Rodrigues dos Santos of the 9th Federal Civil Court of São Paulo, which had kept Stake’s authorisation in force until 25 October. He found then that one company operating while all others were shut down created a regulatory asymmetry that undermined the ban.
The two operators were in similar positions. Stake also said it paid R$30m for an authorisation valid until 31 December 2029. The difference is the court level: Stake’s order came from a first-instance judge and only delayed the expiry, while CDA Gaming’s came from a TRF3 appeals judge and restored an authorisation that had already been extinguished. Both suspensions hold until the underlying case reaches a final judgment or the TRF3 presidency rules again.
Next steps
CDA Gaming’s writ of mandamus continues before the 26th Federal Civil Court of São Paulo, and its appeal before the TRF3’s Third Panel. At the STF, Justice Luiz Fux closed the 3 November public hearing without a ruling or a date to judge the challenges to MP 1,394/2026. In Congress, the MP blocks the agenda from 9 November, and its first 60-day term ends on 23 November.
Source: Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region (TRF3)
