Judge Thomas Wingate ruled Wednesday the PokerStars website willfully violated Kentucky’s anti-gambling laws and ordered the company to pay an $870 million dollar fine.
Read More . . .A look back at the continued developments in the United States legal online gaming industry that occurred over the course of 2015, and some predictions for 2016. Month by month highlights
Read More . . .It was only two years ago that a few states launched major online gambling sites. Delaware, Nevada, and New Jersey all brought gambling to our browser.
Read More . . .Online gambling and the PA budget, not meant to be? Online gambling was being floated as one of many potential funding mechanisms for Pennsylvania's yet-to-be-passed 2016 budget
Read More . . .Pennsylvania State Rep. John Payne, the new chairman of the House Gaming Oversight Committee, is taking an activist approach to helping the casino industry stay competitive.
Read More . . .A hearing on the Sheldon Adelson backed "Restoration of America's Wire Act" showed most politicians displeasure with the bill and the reasons that it was introduced.
Read More . . .Let's be clear: Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) doesn't care about facts. So it's no surprise that the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who also happens to be one of Sheldon Adelson's best friends, opened a hearing titled "A Casino in Every Smartphone – Law Enforcement Implications" with a slew of misinformation and fearmongering.
Read More . . .Proposed federal legislation that would outlaw online gambling in New Jersey and the two other states that allow it got a second hearing Wednesday.
Read More . . .Members of the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform heard on Wednesday both opponents and supporters of the proposed Restoration of America's Wire Act, a bill that would prohibit the provision of online gambling services across the United States, if approved.
Read More . . .Pennsylvania could be standing on the brink of legal online gambling, at least if the state's House gets its way. Two budget plans have emerged as the state legislature seeks a speedy end to its five-month-long budget impasse, one of which, proposed by the House, would legalize online gambling as soon as possible.
Read More . . .New York assemblyman Dean Murray has introduced a new bill in an effort to change federal law and state constitution regarding daily fantasy sports
Read More . . .The 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified 224 years ago — almost to the day — to ensure that the rights of the people would be protected from a government in Washington, D.C., eager to impose its will on them. Unless a power is specifically delegated to the federal government under the Constitution, it is "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
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