im in pa and getting antsy this ish im on the edge
Which case are you referring to, and at what level (e.g. Supreme Court)?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/u-s-now-says-all-online-gambling-illegal-not-just-sports-bets
[Bolded emphasis added]Quote: Bloomberg News - By Edvard PetterssonThe U.S. Justice Department’s decision to expand a federal prohibition on internet gambling will cast a pall on the industry as businesses and state lotteries evaluate the implications of the change and the government’s plans to enforce it.
The U.S. now says the U.S. Wire Act bars all internet gambling that involves interstate transactions, reversing its position from 2011 that only sports betting was prohibited under the law passed 50 years earlier.
While the federal law specifically prohibits transmission of wagers and related information across state lines, the Justice Department’s new interpretation will impact all online gambling because as a practical matter it’s difficult to guarantee that no payments are routed through other states, said Aaron Swerdlow, an attorney with Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP in Los Angeles....
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Of course some folks in places like online poker blogs & suchlike are hyperventilating and blowing gaskets like crazy. But it is not a new position. It is, inconveniently enough, the old one that was widely understood as the law of the land and was in effect and adjudicated for fifty years ever since the Kennedy administration created it.
EDIT: Pardon me for getting my quote tags so badly screwed up. Hope I've got it straightened out now.