[WA] Selected Coverage of Lee Rousso vs. WA State
By Poker Players Alliance
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Headlines
[UIGEA] Stop work on enforcing Web gambling ban, lawmakers urge
By Tony Batt, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Work on federal regulations to enforce an Internet gambling ban should stop, four lawmakers said in letters this week to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
“Given the many other priorities that are pending at your agencies, including the mortgage crisis … we believe it would be imprudent for you to devote additional agency resources to this Sisyphean task,” the lawmakers wrote. Sisyphus was a king in Greek mythology who was condemned to repeatedly roll a huge boulder up a hill only to watch it roll down again.
[CA] Cali. Intrastate Online Poker Room Bill Moves Forward
By Bob Pajich, CardPlayer
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
A bill that would authorize the study of intrastate online poker in
California moved forward yesterday when the Assembly Governmental
Organization Committee (AGOC) unanimously sent the bill forward to the
Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 2026 calls for the California Gambling Control Commission and the
Department of Justice to perform a study on authorizing intrastate
online poker in California. If passed, the study is to be presented to
California Legislature by June 30, 2009.
[SC] Selected Coverage of Hanahan Poker Raid
By Poker Players Alliance
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Selected Coverage of UIGEA Hearing on 04/02/08
By Poker Players Alliance
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
[MA] Harvard Student Group to Rally at Statehouse to Protest Possible Jail Terms for Poker Players
By GPSTS
Monday, March 17th, 2008
The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS), the group formed at Harvard Law School to promote poker as an educational tool, is co-sponsoring a rally Tuesday at the Statehouse with the Massachusetts chapter of the Poker Players Alliance to protest the criminalization of poker in Governor Deval Patrick’s gaming bill.
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Rep urges Congress to permit net gambling
By Sarah Polson, PokerListings
Friday, February 1st, 2008
Representative Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) sent out a letter to his fellow U.S. Congressmen this week urging them to support legislation that would regulate and tax online gambling in the United States.
U.S. law currently aims to prohibit U.S. residents from gambling on the Internet, and McDermott points out that governing what adults choose to do online is difficult.
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[PA] Upper Allen poker game busted
By Heather Stauffer, The Sentinel
Friday, February 1st, 2008
A bevy of police officers knocked, then waited a few seconds before using a ram to break through a double deadbolt lock on a body shop in Upper Allen Township, startling the almost two dozen men on the other side of the door.
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[Study] Estimate Of Federal Revenue Effect Of Proposal To Regulate And Tax Online Gambling
By PricewaterhouseCoopers
Friday, February 1st, 2008
On April 26, 2007, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced H.R. 2046, the “Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007,” that provides for the licensing and regulation of lawful Internet gambling by the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. On June 7, 2007, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced H.R. 2607, a companion bill to H.R. 2046 that would impose a fee on companies licensed to provide online gambling services in the United States.
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