http://www.igaminglaw.com The source for online gaming law Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:53:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The World Trade Organization issued it’s Final Decision today in the case brought by Antigua and Barbuda against the United States. While we’ll certainly have more to say shortly, the WTO emphatically rejected the United States feeble argument that it had complied with the WTO’s previous decision to halt ... http://www.igaminglaw.com/?p=43 Found an interesting commentary in Newsweek on the recently passed SAFE Port Act, by the noted commentator, George F. Will, who begins with the following: “Perhaps Prohibition II is being launched because Prohibition I worked so well at getting rid of gin. Or maybe the point is to ... http://www.igaminglaw.com/?p=42 The second good thing to come out of the SAFE Port Act, if you think people should have the ability to freely participate in such licensed online gaming activities as they desire, is the carve out that businesses operating horse betting sites received. For purposes of the SAFE Port ... http://www.igaminglaw.com/?p=41 While we know many are forecasting the “end” of online gaming resulting from the passage of the SAFE Port Bill, expected to be signed into law by October 14, 2006, those in the know, know better. So, we begin our multi-part series on the ways in which the SAFE ... http://www.igaminglaw.com/?p=39 The SAFE Port Bill (H.R. 4954) was presented to the President for his signature on Tuesday, October 3, 2006. Under the U.S. Constitution, the President has 10 days, excluding Sundays, in which to consider the Bill. If he objects to the Bill, he returns it to Congress and ... http://www.igaminglaw.com/?p=38 Assuming President Bush signs the U.S. Safe Port Bill (which he will), there certainly will be much discussion and writing in the coming days and months about what the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement provisions of the Bill really mean. We’ll be reviewing it here, section by section, but first ... http://www.igaminglaw.com/?p=36 Well, after over 9 years of debate and votes, legislation attempting to prohibit the use of bank financial instruments for many types of internet gambling has passed both the U.S.House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. It got there through a back door route, by attachment in closed ... http://www.igaminglaw.com/?p=28 Be watchful, U.S. Senate leaders are trying to attach internet funding prohibition legislation to anything they can as the 109th Congress comes to a close. While they failed in their attempt at adding it to the Department of Defense funding bill, there are still a few opportunites left. ... http://www.igaminglaw.com/?p=29 We have some official guidance on advertising in Great Britain by “overseas” gaming sites. Today, the UK Gambling Commission and the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport jointly issued their view of the application of the Gaming Act 1968 to the practice of foreign operators advertising in the ... http://www.igaminglaw.com/?p=30 Yet another perspective on the WTO decision in the Antigua case has been written. This time in the form of an Op/Ed piece at BASIS Online, the website of the Division on Addictions at the Cambridge Health Alliance by Marc Mendel, one of the attorneys who represented Antigua in ... http://www.igaminglaw.com/?p=31