Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a newInternet-gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them onto overseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any means […]
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Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a newInternet-gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them onto overseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any means […]
Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
Britain’s culture secretary on Friday compared the United States crackdownon online gambling to the failed alcohol ban of the Prohibition as sheprepared to host an international summit on Internet gambling next week.Tessa Jowell warned that the U.S. ban on Internet gambling would makeunregulated offshore sites the “modern equivalent of speakeasies,” illegalbars that opened in 1920s […]
A growing initiative to unseat Kyl from his comfortable Senate appointment.Kyl reportedly has ambitions to become the Republican majority leader in theSenate following Senator Bill Frist’s departure Both Republicans played amajor role in ramming the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act throughCongress in the closing minutes of the pre-election session, angeringmillions of Americans who regard online […]
Unregulated internet gambling is simply adding to the growing problem ofaddiction, delegates attending the Canadian Association of SuicidePrevention conference in Toronto were told this week. An estimated 200compulsive gamblers commit suicide in Canada every year, said Terry Flynn, adirector of spiritual care at the Bellwood Health Services facility inToronto. The growth of gambling on the […]
The British government plans next week to seek international support forlegalized, regulated online gambling, emphasizing a trans-Atlanticdifference on the issue after the Bush administration’s recent move tooutlaw transactions with Internet gambling services. During a conferencescheduled for Tuesday at the Royal Ascot racecourse, the British governmentplans to seek adoption of a broad code of principles on […]
The voices talking so loudly against the Unlawful Internet GamblingEnforcement Act (UIGEA) on forums and blogs across are the internet will beleaving their keyboards on November 3-4 and will be headed to WashingtonD.C. to protest the latest US prohibition. The purpose of the demonstrationwill be to gain press coverage from major news organizations such as […]
Smoking. Gambling. A sin tax for the arts. An increase in the minimum wage.These are among the contentious issues voters here will decide at the ballotbox November 7. Perhaps the most confusing for Ohio voters are statewideIssues 4 and 5. Both would limit smoking in public places, but to differentdegrees. Issue 4 is a constitutional […]
As a co-sponsor of a bill that was signed into law two weeks ago byPresident Bush, Jon Kyl, the Republican Senator from Arizona, has workedhard over the years to abolish online gambling utilizing the “family values”front. The current law would look to severely cut off some forms of onlinegambling via credit card transactions, though the […]
PartyGaming Plc, the world’s largest online poker company, lost 75 percentof its revenue when the company shut down its U.S. sites to comply with anew law enforcing a ban on Internet gambling. That hasn’t dented ChiefExecutive Officer Mitch Garber’s optimism. “Chaos breeds opportunity and wewill seize that opportunity,” Garber said on a conference call Oct. […]
Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new Internetgambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on tooverseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any […]