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Is It A Crime To Give A Casino A Bum Marker?

#59 Copyright 2000, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA. Licensed casinos have fought for years for the right to collect their gaming debts in courts of law. A...

Making Your Web Site Too Good Can Get You Into Trouble

#63 ©Copyright 2000, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA. Can you be dragged across the country, or the world, forced to defend yourself in a foreign courtroom,...

Attempted Robbery By Lawsuit

#60 ©Copyright 2000, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA. Woody Guthrie said: "Some rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen." But, you do not usually...

The Major Internet Gambling Case That Isn’t

#54 Casino Executive ©Copyright 1999, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA. A recent decision by Manhattan Judge Charles Edward Ramos of the Supreme Court of New...

Legal Gambling: Looking Back, And Forward

© Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” Proverb, attributed to Alphonse Karr Even before...

M&As – Why So Many, Why Now?

© Copyright 2010, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com It seems that every day brings news of more mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the online gaming world. [NOTE FOR...

The Ten Most Important Events in Gaming Law

#136 ©Copyright 1999 by I. Nelson Rose. All rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA. Years ending in zeros have magic powers. They make us do strange things. Like draw...

But – Is It Gambling?

© Copyright 2010, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com Every week, I receive emails and phone calls from operators, reporters, and particularly entrepreneurs – individuals...

U.S. Blows Off W.T.O. Deadline

#117 © Copyright 2006, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA Once again, the federal government is not taking gambling seriously. And we are all going to pay for...

It’s Not Just About Voting

#165 © Copyright 2005, all rights reserved worldwide Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA Should 14-year-olds be allowed to play poker for money in California card clubs? As silly as the idea...