Brazil’s Supreme Court admits ANJL as amicus curiae in challenges to the Bets Law

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) has allowed the Associação Nacional de Jogos e Loterias (ANJL) to join as amicus curiae in three constitutional challenges to Law 14.790/2023, the country’s so-called Bets Law. For operators and PSPs in Brazil, the point is simple: the legal framework for regulated betting is now being tested at the highest court, and the outcome will shape where traffic, payments, and compliance risk end up.

1. Justice Luiz Fux, the rapporteur for the cases, authorized ANJL’s entry in ADIs 7.721 and 7.723, filed respectively by the Confederação Nacional do Comércio de Bens, Serviços e Turismo (CNC) and the Partido Solidariedade. Because they raise the same legal issue, the STF’s internal rules require them to be heard together with ADI 7.749, filed by the Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR).
2. Fux said the amicus curiae mechanism “democratizes” the Supreme Court’s deliberative process and provides “technical-scientific guidelines” that make constitutional adjudication empirically informed. In plain terms, the court is signaling that it wants data and sector input on a file that could affect the structure of Brazil’s regulated betting market.
3. ANJL’s president, Plínio Lemos Jorge, said the association will use the cases to show the rapporteur and the other justices the “errors and weaknesses” in the ADIs. He said ANJL will present data and technical information to support the constitutionality of the law and what it describes as its benefits for the Brazilian population.
4. Jorge also warned that if the STF were to strike down the Bets Law, around 30 million bettors who access sites authorized by the Ministry of Finance could be pushed into the illegal market. For payment providers, that is the practical issue: regulated volume does not disappear, it migrates, and with it come tax leakage, weaker controls, and a harder compliance environment.
5. ANJL was launched in March 2023 and says it represents the interests of its members, the sector, responsible and integrity-based gambling, sports, betting security, and economic development. Its members include Aposta Ganha Loterias, Fast Gaming, OiG Gaming Brazil, Ana Gaming Brasil, Esportes Gaming Brasil, SPRBT Interactive Brasil, Defy, LBBR Aposta de Quota Fixa, Lucky Gaming, Reals Brasil, Gamewiz Brasil, BETBR Loterias, Versus Brasil, SorteNaBet Gaming Brasil, Blow Marketplace, Sistema Lotérico de Pernambuco, Vanguard Entretenimento Brasil, Hiper Bet Tecnologia, Pocket Games, ODDSGATE Brasil, Upbet Brasil, EB Intermediações, Big Brazil Tecnologia e Loteria, EBAC, TaDa Gaming, BB Gaming, Legitimuz Tecnologia and JogaJunto.