I’ve got a new article in the latest issue of Gaming Law Review and Economics, about the Wire Act: For a Camelot-era piece of legislation, the Wire Act has a long and unintended shadow. Used haltingly in the 1960s, when the Wire Act failed to deliver the death blow to organized crime, 1970’s Racketeer-Influenced and […]
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news about gambling, writingFor a long time, I’ve been a little surprised that the US/WTO online gaming case hasn’t gotten more mainstream press. Now the tide may be turning. This LA Times editorial is a case in point: ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, former British colonies on the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea, are smaller than Los Angeles and
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news about gamblingThe WTO is fed up with good old-fashioned American intransigence, at least as far as online gambling goes. From Ars Technica: The tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda has just won a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling against the US regarding online gambling. The WTO has ruled that the US “has failed to comply
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news about gamblingI just love this headline: Tiny Antigua grabs the US by its illegal, online dice. The story is interesting, too: Has the time actually come for Congress to read its own legislation? In the wee hours before Congressmen could head off for their election year recess, they managed to churn out a mound of unread
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news about gamblingThe nation of Antigua is understandably chagrined that the United States government has not come into compliance with the World Trade Organization’s ruling on its Internet gaming case. I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t break all this down. But here’s the press release from Antigua’s PR firm: The deadline passed today for the US
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news about gamblingAs I’ve said before, the fiscal pressures in state legislatures will eventually outweigh anti-gambling rhetoric, and Internet gaming will be legalized in the US. USA Today now apparently feels the same way.
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news about gamblingI always tell my students that history has three components: source documents, without which we would have nothing to write about; historical writing, which puts the raw material of the past into context and makes it relevant; and readers, without whom the whole exercise would be fruitless. You write books because you want people to