House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank will use a hearing this spring to highlight the headaches he says anti-gambling regulations have created for banks and other financial institutions.
Read More . . .Professor I. Nelson Rose is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on gambling law and we asked him his opinion on where online gambling stands now and what it looks like as we head in to the future. Here is what Professor Rose shared...
Read More . . .Nearly a year after authorities arrested four men suspected of running Internet-based sports gambling rings, 36 people have been indicted.
Read More . . .The last several weeks have been quite busy for political challengers of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) passed late in 2006.
Read More . . .Representative James McDermott has updated his legislation for 2008. <a href="http://www.osga.com/McDermott-Bill-HR 5523.htm">Click here</a> for the full text of the bill.
Read More . . .Today marks the day that casinos and cardrooms are required by law collect information about their players who win $5,000 or more playing tournament poker...
Read More . . .It's not easy making rules for a U.S. law intended to deter illegal Internet gambling by choking off the flow of funds to offshore sites. That's because no one seems to agree on what the law covers.
Read More . . .In America, the raft of objections already submitted to the US Department of Treasury and the Federal Reserve criticising the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA)...
Read More . . .In Atlantic City, starting Tuesday, it's going to get harder for poker tournament winners to bluff the tax man.
Read More . . .When a Forsyth County couple sent 99-cent text messages trying to win a prize on the NBC game show "Deal or No Deal," they engaged in illegal gambling and should get their money back, a lawyer told the Georgia Supreme Court.
Read More . . .In 2006, Congress effectively put a stop to the booming online poker industry. But now, a group of motivated online poker players, and Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, D-Van Nuys, are looking at exploiting a loophole in the federal law that could bring online poker back to California.
Read More . . .Former Antigua Ambassador to the US, Lionel Hurst, believes it is now time for the United States to abide by a ruling of the WTO.
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