A New York judge on Monday rejected the requests of the daily fantasy sports website operators DraftKings and FanDuel for temporary restraining orders that would have blocked the New York attorney general’s attempt to shut down the businesses in the state.
DraftKings said that it was “confident in our legal position” and that it intended to keep operating in New York.
In separate complaints filed Friday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, FanDuel and DraftKings first asked a judge for an injunction, arguing that the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, had wrongly characterized their businesses as illegal gambling operations.