Legal Developments

The US greyhound racing betting industry has experienced a dramatic decline since its peak in the 1980s. Today, West Virginia is the only state where greyhound racing still occurs. Most of the nation’s greyhound race tracks closed for financial rather than legal reasons, and the sport is still legal across much of the United States….

In 2018, Senators Orrin Hatch and Chuck Schumer introduced a federal sports betting bill called the Sports Wagering Market Integrity Act. The key goals of the bill were: Ultimately, S.3793 did not gain much traction in Congress and never made it to a vote. The US online sports betting industry and some lawmakers opposed parts…

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.

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.

For 15 minutes Tuesday evening, FanDuel Sportsbook in West Virginia was offering lines on presidential betting. We summarized the West Virginia political betting debacle as it happened, but the overarching questions are, should West Virginia have gone down this road? And will there be any fallout?

For roughly an hour, America had a legal betting option for a presidential election. FanDuel Sportsbook in West Virginia technically became the first regulated entity to offer bets on a political event, posting lines on the 2020 presidential election. A day after lines opened, the political betting option is closed.

For most of its life, the 1961 Wire Act was an uncontroversial piece of legislation. But in the age of online gambling, the Wire Act, and its applicability to online gambling, has become an enigmatic piece of legislation. So much so that it is winding through the courts as we speak.

It’s January, and that means one thing, a flurry of gaming expansion legislation is being introduced in statehouses across the country. The latest state to add its name to the sports betting and online poker mix is an unlikely one: Nebraska.

The Department of Justice isn’t ready to throw in the towel on its highly criticized 2018 Wire Act opinion. This summer, the DOJ appealed the ruling by New Hampshire District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro that said the Wire Act only applied to sports betting, but it waited until the last minute to file its brief…

When the Sports Wagering Market Integrity Act (SWMIA) was introduced at the end of last year, it sparked a theoretical debate about which government or governments were best suited to regulate the newly-forming gambling markets.