Fantasy Sports Industry Mounts Lobbying Blitz – Wall Street Journal

Facing legal questions that could threaten its survival, the fantasy-sports industry has initiated a lobbying blitz in statehouses across the country.

Since Jan. 1, legislators in 16 states have introduced bills to carve out legal protections for fantasy-sports operators, nearly all of them supported by the operators themselves. Several other states have active bills that were introduced last year. Legislative bodies in California,…