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U.S. Department of Justice Opinion: Wire Act Only Applies to Sports Betting (UPDATED)
On Friday, the United States Department of Justice made public documents with the its legal opinion on the Wire Act, 18U.S.C. § 1084, concluding that “interstate transmissions of wire communications that do not relate to a ‘sporting event of contest’ fall outside the reach of the Wire Act.”
The DOJ’s opinion was released in a memo in response to Illinois and New York inquiries as to the law’s effect on intrastate sales of lottery tickets via the Internet. In the memo, which was written by Assistant Attorney General Virginia Seitz, the DOJ finds that the Wire Act only applies to sports...
About time! It looks like the US DOJ have finally woken up and smelled the coffee ... or smelled the tax revenue from online poker. Let's all hope that 2012 will see the US try and catch up to France & Britain in online poker ... allowing the US citizens that were driven out of the US by the DOJ Poker Prohibition ... to return to a better, regulated industry.
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12-23-2011 20:06
flintswordArticle infers that DOJ knew it only referred to sportsbetting for a long time. That means it put everybody through hell. If so, this should be culpable offense.
12-24-2011 06:47
bannonI totally disagree with the PPA. If we can have online poker now in states where poker is legal, let's do it. I would just as soon keep the feds out of it. Whether or not to have legal gambling has always been up to the individual states. If the feds try to take this power away from the states this could be tied up in court with legal challenges for years.
12-25-2011 21:59
i think its great news for christmas, this DOJ clarification.
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12-26-2011 11:48
angiedubsba11game wrote
I totally disagree with the PPA. If we can have online poker now in states where poker is legal, let's do it. I would just as soon keep the feds out of it. Whether or not to have legal gambling has always been up to the individual states. If the feds try to take this power away from the states this could be tied up in court with legal challenges for years.
It just doesn't work as nicely as you want it to - just ask marijuana dispensaries that have been green lit to do business by state governments, only to be shut down by the feds. It's gonna take both before consumers have nothing to worry about, with respect to federal government intervention.
12-27-2011 17:08
Percivalwhy not follow along with the rest of the world that allow internet poker... having individual states make their own laws is only complicating the process. poker tournaments are a form of lottery and the more players means bigger prizepool is why worldwide collaboration is more ideal.
12-29-2011 09:33
how is sneaking a law into another law even Legal? like the UIGEA shouldn't there be rule's you have to follow in the political world like NO lying cheating stealing etc. pretty sure those are big rules iin poker teaching you lessons in life a false LAW created under false pretense's is a shame a crooked big fat lie of manipulation trickery and deceit
04-11-2012 09:10
Give us FFF-R-E-E-D-O-M doe's anybody understand the meaning of the word there is no such thing as limitation in the idea or word of freedom holding the entire country and world back all so they can play some game of making law's demanding and destroying everybody walk of life so they can be bully's republicans rape everybody's freedom with making law's against everything but yet they want us to have gun's defend our self's against the law's they create?
04-11-2012 09:19
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