Markell tries to block NFL's blitz
- Mar 29, 2009
Gov. Jack Markell has gone on the offensive against the National Football League in his quest to bring sports betting to Delaware....
Read More . . .Gov. Jack Markell has gone on the offensive against the National Football League in his quest to bring sports betting to Delaware....
Read More . . .The US Department of Justice, a defendant in a Federal court challenge to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA), filed a motion opposing the addition to court records...
Read More . . .The state Supreme Court today will begin considering Gov. Jack Markell's request for an opinion on the legality of sports betting...
Read More . . .With Atlantic City casinos in a financial meltdown and New Jersey's budget in shambles, a state lawmaker filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to allow sports betting in all 50 states...
Read More . . .A Renton lawyer's campaign to make Washington state safe for Internet poker players lost again on Monday...
Read More . . .Delaware's risky gambling bet:
Of all the budget cutting and revenue increases in the governor's budget, none is more dicey than plans to make Delaware a gambling mecca...
A.C. holds uncertain hand as Del. explores sports betting:
If Delaware establishes sports betting, as its governor, Jack Markell, proposed last week, its effect on Atlantic City’s worry-battered casinos is uncertain, though one expert said it will have only a small impact. The First State’s plan calls for a limited form of sports betting known as “parlay cards.�...
It depends on what you mean by "gambling." State Sen. Michael W. Morrissey, D-Quincy, filed a bill in January that would legalize in Massachusetts "betting squares" or pools on the Super Bowl and the NCAA tournament.
Read More . . .The criminal trial for the founder and former CEO of the defunct international online gambling powerhouse BETOnSPORTS has finally been scheduled — for September — and could take up to three months or more, lawyers said Thursday.
Read More . . .A Franklin Circuit Court judge overturned suspensions yesterday that were given to three jockeys for wearing unapproved advertisements during the 2005 Kentucky Derby.
Read More . . .This just in — America is broke. Now more than ever, states are looking at ways to raise revenues. This week, Delaware’s governor and a New Jersey state senator proposed that their states begin to allow gambling on sports.
Read More . . .There are plenty of reasons to dislike Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank. But there is at least one reason to throw him a scrap of praise: He took a principled stand opposing attempts to ban internet gambling and he’s apparently sticking with it.
Read More . . .Greg Raymer points out that the UIGEA did not make online poker illegal so it should not have had any effect on poker sites at all.
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