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It Was Twenty Years Ago

#149 © Copyright 2008, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com It was 20 years ago, almost to the day, that the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (“IGRA”), was signed into law....

Which Way Asia?

#150 © Copyright 2008, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com Macau’s gross gaming revenue is slowing. Still, the only legal casinos in China made more in the first three...

Gambling Law: Read Those T&Cs

#08-20 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com. Party Poker won a nice victory in federal court in Ohio, because its Terms and Conditions say that all...

Suing an Out-Of-State Casino in Your Home State

#08-21 © Copyright 2010, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com. If you are injured while visiting a casino in another state, can you file suit when you get home? The...

The Final UIGEA Regs Should Help Land-Based Casinos

#151 © Copyright 2008, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.” Winston...

The New UIGEA Regs Are Good For Business

© Copyright 2008, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com Be careful what you wish for because it might come true. Proverb In 2006, the then-Majority Leader of the United...

New Internet Gaming Regulations — Part I, II

New Internet Gaming Regulations -- Part I, II #08-22 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com In the end, the federal regulators charged with making rules to...

The Impact of a Depression on Legal Gambling

#152 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com “Buy when there is blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.” Baron Nathan Rothschild This is not...

Pennsylvania Court Rules Poker Is a Game of Skill

#2009-2 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com In the first important legal decision of 2009, a trial judge in Pennsylvania dismissed criminal gambling...

Second Court Rules Poker is a Game of Skill

#2009-3 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com For the second time in two weeks, a trial court has found that poker is a game of skill, and therefore not...