Rhode Island’s in-person sports betting requirement will likely end as soon as this month, curtailing a policy industry stakeholders decry as a handicap to legal betting and a boon to unregulated bookmakers.
Nebraska gaming backers have reportedly garnered enough signatures to place a casino authorization voter referendum on the 2020 ballot.
What was shaping as the busiest year for U.S. gaming legislation in recent memory was, like nearly every other legislative endeavor, curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
UPDATE July 2, 10:30 a.m.: The court granted the tribes’ petition ahead of Thursday’s hearing. Native American groups now have until Oct. 12, 2020 to gather the signatures required to place the sports betting question on the 2022 ballot. California’s next best hope for legal sports betting will go before a court Thursday.
The federal government has permitted two Oklahoma Native American tribes to take in-person sports wagers, but a state Supreme Court ruling could thwart legal betting in the Sooner State before it begins.
Legal, online sports betting in Georgia seems closer than ever.
The 1961 Wire Act had another day in court last week when the First Circuit Court of Appeals listened to oral arguments from the New Hampshire Lottery and co-plaintiff NeoPollard, as well as the Department of Justice, the defendant in the case.
Another legislative session, another failed California sports betting bill.
A Louisiana daily fantasy taxation bill easily passed the state House of Representatives Wednesday, a year-and-a-half after voters in most parishes overwhelmingly approved the games.
The 1961 Wire Act wasn’t supposed to be a controversial law, and for most of its existence, it wasn’t. But then internet gambling sprang into being. The lack of law and regulation pertaining to the internet sent law enforcement scrambling to find anything that might apply to this new delivery channel.
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