by I. Nelson Rose | May 8, 2025 | Articles
Attitudes toward gambling have shifted not only from state to state but also over time. Twice before in American history, almost all gambling was outlawed. Even Nevada closed its casinos in 1909. But we are now in what I call the Third Wave of Legal Gambling, with...
by I. Nelson Rose | Mar 26, 2024 | Articles, Blogs, Citations
Shohei Ohtani’s calm, deliberate delivery Monday of his version of events surrounding the payment of his longtime interpreter Ippei Mizuhara’s gambling debts leaves no doubt where he stands on the matter. He does not and never has placed bets on any sport. He was...
by I. Nelson Rose | Mar 26, 2024 | Articles, Blogs, Citations
Shohei Ohtani is no Pete Rose. At least not yet. For one thing, as accomplished as Ohtani is at baseball, his career 684 hits pale in comparison with Rose’s 4,256, the most of any major league player. More pertinent to the news cycle is that Ohtani hasn’t been accused...
by I. Nelson Rose | May 9, 2022 | Articles, Blogs
I normally write about issues involving legal gambling. But the US Supreme Court’s upcoming decision to overturn Roe v. Wade raises the question: Can tribes open abortion clinics the way they have opened casinos? Gaming law gives us part of the answer. Indian law is...
by I. Nelson Rose | Feb 13, 2021 | Articles, Columns
Government regulators ought to at least pretend to be neutral. This is particularly true of regulators whose main job is to protect the public. Imagine the Atomic Energy Commission saying nuclear power plants can set their own safety standards, and anyway, there is...
by I. Nelson Rose | Dec 19, 2020 | Articles, Columns
It is time to look again at the controversy over the right of casinos to shuffle cards in blackjack whenever the remainder of the deck favors the players. Although the issue of casino dealers counting cards has been stewing for decades, the most recent flare-up is the...
