Poker, Law and Society

Here you will find stories relating to poker law, and how poker relates to society. Updates stories on the UIGEA, and all poker related legislation will also be found here, along with updates on the legal situation poker faces in countries all over the world.

• Menendez Introduces Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act

  September 30, 2008,

  The latest attempt at creating a safe, regulatory framework at the federal level for skill games such as poker has come about in the form of the Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act, S. 3616, introduced by Senator Robert...

   

• Kahnawake Gaming Commission Announces Sanctions on UltimateBet: Russ Hamilton Named

  September 29, 2008,

  In a release issued late on Monday afternoon, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission announced sanctions imposed as a result of the insider cheating scandal at UltimateBet. Named specifically in the announcement was UB official...

   

• Forfeiture Action Frozen, Continuation Granted in KY Domain Seizure Case

  September 27, 2008,

  A hearing in Frankfort, Kentucky on Friday involving the court-ordered forfeiture of 141 domain names connected to online gambling resulted in a short-term victory for pro-poker forces when the forfeiture action was ordered...

   

• PPA Submits Amicus Brief in Kentucky Online-Gambling Domain Seizure

  September 26, 2008,

  As a hearing commenced today in the forfeiture portion of a court case regarding the seizure by Kentucky officials of 141 Internet domains connected to online gambling, the Poker Players Alliance filed an amicus brief...

   

• Kentucky Governor Attempts Mass Domain-Name Seizure Targeting Online Gambling Sites

  September 23, 2008,

  In a surprise political move termed separately as a 'stunt' and a 'blatant protectionist move' by interested observers, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear on Thursday pushed through a court order to seize domain names connected...

   

• European Union/US Online Gambling Dispute Likely Headed to WTO

  September 19, 2008,

  A report from Reuters on Thursday indicates that the dispute over online gambling between European Union countries and the United States is increasingly likely to result in a formal World Trade Organization complaint, opening the way...

   

• Barney Frank's Payments System Protection Act Passes Committee Vote

  September 17, 2008,

  U.S. Congressman Barney Frank's second try at bringing about clarification and restriction to the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) jumped off to a better start than his first attempt when his new measure...

   

• Frank Reintroduces Payment Systems Protection Act

  September 13, 2008,

  U.S. Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) has introduced his "Payment Systems Protection Act of 2008" as part of his continuing effort to overturn the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Frank, the chairman of the powerful House...

   

• WMS Entitled to More Damages in PartyGaming Lawsuit

  September 12, 2008,

  If there is a lessoned to be learned from the recent decision by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, it is simply: show up to court. On September 8th, the United State Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit...

   

• UPDATE: Republicans Remove Internet Gambling Language From Party Platform

  August 26, 2008,

  In a surprising turnaround, the Republican Platform Committee today stripped language urging a prohibition of Internet gambling from its draft platform. Considering one of the leading opponents of an internet gambling ban...

   

• Poker and Politics: The PPA and the Republican Platform

  August 26, 2008,

  With the Republican National Convention just a week away, supporters of online gambling have turned their attention to two troubling sentences of the Republican Party's platform...

   

• Guilty Pleas for Three Minor Defendants in BetOnSports Case

  August 09, 2008,

  The federal case against people connected with former US-facing sportsbook site BetOnSports moved forward with the acceptance of guilty pleas from three relatively minor defendants on Wednesday. The three Florida defendants...

   

• Sessions Introduces UIGEA 'Clarification' Bill; PPA Pans Measure's Language

  August 05, 2008,

  A new bill introduced by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Clarification and Implementation Act of 2008 (H.R. 6663), attempts to offer further insight on what America's 2006 UIGEA is supposed...

   

• US Postpones Trade Meetings with EU Regarding Online Gambling

  August 03, 2008,

  The United States abruptly announced a postponement in scheduled trade talks with representatives of the European Union that were to discuss online gambling and the stance of the current US administration, which in the EU's view...

   

• Lead-free Chips for California Casinos

  August 02, 2008,

  In the aftermath of a television expose concerning lead content in chips and a subsequent outcry from a health-and-safety citizen's group, 21 California casinos will soon convert to lead-free poker chips at their tables...

   

• Pennsylvania Seeks Funds Seizure in 'Skill vs. Chance' Poker Case

  August 01, 2008,

  The battle over poker games run in rural Westmoreland County, PA by attorney Larry Burns has resulted in a petition being filed by Pennsylvania's state attorney general office to seize over $40,000 alleged as proceeds...

   

• Four Republican Congressman Call for UIGEA 'Unlawful Internet Gambling' Clarification

  July 31, 2008,

  An open letter written by four Republican Congressman to the heads of the Federal Reserve Board and U.S. Treasury calls for a more 'deliberative' approach for crafting regulations for the implementation of the UIGEA...

   

• Poker News Bytes, July 29, 2008

  July 29, 2008,

  A poker player who took his winnings to a brothel, only to get robbed, West Virgina fireman taking heat over charity poker tournaments, and PokerTek secures new financing - all today in this issue of Poker News Bytes...

   

• Raids Target Underground Toronto Poker Games

  July 25, 2008,

  Another wave of police raids targeting private poker games occurred in Toronto this past week, with at least four raids into 'suspected gaming houses' resulting in charges against nearly 50 participants. All four locations were described...

   

• Study Supports Regulation of Online Gambling

  July 25, 2008,

  The growing chorus of voices calling for an end to the ban on internet gambling has just added two unexpected members – associate professors Kathryn LaTour, from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and June Cotte, from the University...

   

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