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March 24, 2019
03/22/2019 ATTORNEY GENERAL TONG JOINS BIPARTISAN COALITION TO PROTECT STATE LOTTERIES  Attorney General William Tong joined a group of...
March 16, 2019
A bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate Wednesday that would put land off I-85 into a trust for the Catawba Indian Tribe for the constru...
March 18, 2019
This January, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an opinion that threatens legal online gambling in the U.S. The tenuous rationale on...
March 10, 2019
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania continues to fight back against the Department of Justice’s new Wire Act opinion. Its latest move is to ...
March 10, 2019
Big changes could be on the horizon for the gaming industry if the January reinterpretation of the federal Wire Act becomes a U.S. Justic...
February 17, 2019
“The text, structure, and history of the Wire Act make clear that its prohibitions extend only to gambling on sporting events,” according...
February 17, 2019
In a quarterly earnings call Wednesday, MGM Resorts International chair and CEO Jim Murren was critical of a U.S. Justice Department opin...
February 15, 2019
The NH Lottery “seeks declaratory and injunctive relief against the defendants,” according to the complaint: NH Lottery v DOJ Barr Feb 1...
February 7, 2019
The attorneys general of New Jersey and Pennsylvania on Tuesday asked the U.S. Justice Department to withdraw a “deeply troubling” legal ...
February 1, 2019
30-second summary President Andrej Kiska had previously passed a veto to block a new gambling law Legislators had been campaigning to...
January 27, 2019
Pennsylvania operators and online gaming applicants have been given a warning this week to comply with the latest federal interpretation ...
January 27, 2019
The Gaming Commission starts a sanction procedure against Betway, an international gambling company and the sponsor of the Belgian Cup an...
January 23, 2019
A New Cloud Over Internet Gaming   Robert J. McLaughlin Gaming Alert January 22, 2019   The Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Office ...
January 23, 2019
The former state Sen. and 2017 Democratic gubernatorial candidate is ready to fight the federal government on behalf of New Jersey once m...
January 21, 2019
Lawmakers in New Jersey are warily eyeing the Department of Justice’s recent strict interpretation of the Wire Act, which critics say cou...
January 16, 2019
LAS VEGAS — The Department of Justice will wait 90 days to implement a legal opinion that will affect online gambling. Deputy Attorney G...
January 16, 2019
Department of Justice says 1961 act applies to all forms of online gambling, not just sports betting The US Department of Justice (DOJ) ...
January 16, 2019
The Justice Department could struggle to defend a new opinion that threatens the legality of online gambling, an analyst has said. The D...
January 15, 2019
Justice Department issues new opinion that could further restrict online gambling The Justice Department late Monday issued a legal opin...
January 15, 2019
A just-released reversal — which was actually determined on Nov. 2, 2018 — of the 1961 Wire Act’s 2011 DOJ opinion (which was in itself a...
January 15, 2019
The U.S. Justice Department now says federal law bars all internet gambling, reversing its position from 2011 that only sports betting is...
January 15, 2019
By Dustin Gouker, Online Poker Report Monday, Jan. 14, 2019 | 6:14 p.m. The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel has issued ...
January 15, 2019
The Department of Justice announced the reversal of a 2011 opinion on the Wire Act on Monday, making the law applicable to all forms of...
January 13, 2019
State Bill Status Summary/Title Last Action VA HB2210 Intro Virginia Lottery; repeal prohibition against sale...
January 13, 2019
State Bill Status Summary/Title Last Action MO HB423 Intro Establishes the Missouri Video Lottery Control Act...
January 13, 2019
The government has been shut down for over two weeks and is on track to become the longest shutdown in U.S. history. As for how long the ...
January 13, 2019
An arbitration panel’s sided with New York State in its efforts to add more than $100 million a year to state coffers from the combined r...