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OT -- Web Gambling Gets Boost from Obama Administration

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Monday, 26 December 2011, at 5:11 p.m.

In Response To: OT -- Web Gambling Gets Boost from Obama Administration (Casper van der Tak)

The question at issue was whether proposals by Illinois and New York to use the Internet and out-of-state transaction processors to sell lottery tickets to in-state adults violated the Wire Act.

But the department's conclusion would eliminate "almost every federal anti-gambling law that could apply to gaming that is legal under state laws," Rose wrote on his blog at www.gamblingandthelaw.com.

If a state legalized intra-state games such as poker, as Nevada and the District of Columbia have done, "there is simply no federal law that could apply" against their operators, he said.

I think the bottom line is that it's OK for states to moderate online gaming even if the origin of that gaming is in another state. Of course a state could still ban the practice but states are hungry for tax dollars and they typically don't have the enforcement resources (compared to the feds) so it would probably be hard to stop if "everybody else is doing it".

All that of course is just my interpretation based on the article and Rose's view.

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