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DoJ Goes All-In with a Very Weak Hand

#2009-9 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com The U.S. Department of Justice recently made an astonishingly bad $34 million bet. The size of the cash isn’t...

Casinos as Absolute Insurers

#158© Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent. Marcus Tullius Cicero Letting the...

Senator Robert Menendez versus Representative Barney Frank

#159 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com On August 6, 2009, Senator Robert Menendez (D.-NJ) introduced his proposal to legalize Internet gambling in the...

Menendez’s Internet Poker Bill

© Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com In September 2008, Senator Robert Menendez (D.-NJ) introduced his first proposal to legalize Internet poker, S.3616....

The New i-Poker Bill – PartS I & II

#2009-11 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com The movement to legalize Internet gaming has come mainly from the U.S. House of Representatives, most...

Can Everyone Win In Florida?

#2009-13 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com Sometimes the most important parts of a legal document are the words that are not there. Gov. Charlie Crist,...

Indian Casino Bonds — a House of Cards?

#160 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com The former Chair of the Mashantucket Piquots, Michael Thomas, sent a small shock wave through the financial...

Poker Player Wins 10% of Casinos

#2009-14 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com Champion poker player Lyle Berman made a last minute bet on whether Ohio voters would approve casinos that...

E.U. Member States Have Only Two Choices

© Copyright 2010, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has now made it clear that the governments of the European Union have only two...