The Federal Supreme Court (STF) in Brazil has unanimously upheld Minister Luis Fux’s emergency measure to ban betting using social welfare and gambling ads that target minors.
Following the conclusion of a two-day hearing at the STF that aimed to explore the impacts of betting in Brazil this week, Supreme Court Minister Fux, on Wednesday (13 November), called for gambling using Bolsa Família social welfare cheques to be prohibited, as well as betting ads that target children.
Fux’s request for STF president Luis Roberto Barroso to call an extraordinary virtual session of the chamber of deputies’ plenary was granted but the hearing was pushed back following an explosion outside the STF on 13 November in which one man was killed.
