Former WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack, who oversaw the WSOP through the boomtime poker era, plans to make professional poker something more akin to the PGA. He\’s founded a new California company — Federated Sports+Gaming — with Annie Duke on the […]
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The latest order in Kentucky v 141 Internet Domain Names has just come down from the Franklin Circuit Court. Remember that this case goes back to 2008 when the Commonwealth of Kentucky tried to seize certain domain names (including www.fulltiltpoker.com and
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I’m attending the Legal Marketing Association’s Toronto conference tomorrow today, so my updates to Dan “Slave-Driver†Michalski had to be in a day early. Also, I’ve picked up a bit of flack for making my updates too US-centric – I’ll
The midterm elections and the November Nine are over, but interesting things keep happening in the gaming world. For starters, the lame-duck session of Congress is underway; time will tell if anything that affects Internet gaming will pass before the
I\’ve returned from Spain after attempting to live-tweet a very informative conference with some great minds on the forefront of gaming law. Here\’s a look at some important legal developments from @GamingCounsel over the past week … American Midterm Shuffles –
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So many socio-political hot-spots right now you\’d think the 2010 WSOP were being played in the Paktika region of Afghanistan. Poker\’s legal quandaries keep growing … as the industry\’s longtime adversaries in Kentucky have filed suit against Pocket Kings, the
State of Kentucky Sues Full Tilt + UB throws a tourney for the Commonwealth
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From EGRmagazine.com comes word that lawyers from the state of Kentucky filed a motion add additional US citizens and companies to the list of 141 domains the state has been attempting to seize since September 2008. This is an interesting
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The Kentucky Supreme Court will be holding a hearing at 11am ET today regarding the Commonwealth of Kentucky\’s efforts in seizing 141 domain names. A live stream of the arguments will be available on the Supreme Court site for those
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Kinda. They probably don\’t want to ban it, or even take over Costa Rican domains … but they do want to have their say in how Iowans go about the business of online money games. From the Iowa Politics Insider:
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Mark it on your calendars (or just check back here) around October 22. The case of the Governor Beshear and the Commonwealth of Kentucky trying to claim the ability to seize 141 online gaming domains, or \”gambling devices\” as they
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