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Indian Nations and Internet Gambling

Cutting edge developments in gambling law are coming from North America's oldest cultures and the world's newest technologies. Can Indian tribes run online lotteries, bingo and casinos? Can they license non-Indians to operate gambling sites on the Internet? This is not merely a hypothetical legal question. In 1997, the Coeur d'Alene tribe in Idaho set up the first Internet Indian lottery, accepting bets from anyone located in a state with a state lottery...read more

Bob Owens' Advice to the XFL: Go for the Gamblers

I'll confess up front that I'd rather watch -- and wager on -- a mediocre football game than the NBA. In fact, I don't even watch pro basketball until the playoffs. Like many diehard football fans I sink into a post-season depression come February. So, I welcomed the brash advent of the XFL...read more

SUPER BOWL XXXV -- And the Winner Is . . .

Roman numeral time again. Giants vs Ravens, and these are not the two teams the ratings-worshipping NFL executives would have preferred: a pair of clubs with no-name quarterbacks, low-scoring outfits defined by their defenses. Surely the NFL nabobs would rather have in their showcase event the zippy Minnesota Vikings, who also have a nice quarterback storyline...read more

Casinos As Spies For The Federal Government

The following Notice has not been approved by any government official. (In fact, some of them would probably be unhappy to see this warning published.) WARNING TO ALL CASINO PATRONS: If you win big, are a high roller, or do anything that a casino or the government regards as suspicious, you will be reported to the U.S...read more

Do Parents Have a Duty to Keep Their Kids out of Casinos?

When a gaming operator loses its license because parents let their underage children gamble, can the operator sue the parents? The Court of Appeal of Louisiana recently was faced with this question. As this is being written, the Court's opinion is not yet final...read more

Salvo cannonade of craps questions

Before I Deal: Craps can be mind-boggling entertainment, making mincemeat out of those who don't understand the fundamentals. My guess is that fewer than 1% of players truly grasp dice. The only thing greener than the felt on your typical crap game is not the money won, but the players...read more

Status of Gaming Enabling Laws (Continued)

Continued from Part 1 NEBRASKA The U.S. Dept. of Interior is going ahead with its highly questionable approval of tribal casinos, although opposed by the state. Tribes would like to negotiate for full casinos, but the Santee Sioux's lawsuit against the state was dismissed following Seminole...read more

Status of Gaming Enabling Laws

The following are American jurisdictions having recent activity concerning legal gambling: * States and territories with legal gaming devices are marked with an asterisk: * States allowing, by law or compact, at least one casino (defined as having both banking card games and slot-like machines) are marked with an exclamation point: ! UNITED STATES On April 12, 1999, Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt issued proposed regulations, giving himself power to approve tribal casinos over a state's objections...read more

Making Your Website too Good Can Get You into Trouble

Can you be dragged across the country, or the world, forced to defend yourself in a foreign courtroom merely because you have a site on the World Wide Web? Judges around the U.S. are being asked that question in cases that often involve Internet gambling...read more

Attempted Robbery by Lawsuit

Woody Guthrie said: "Some rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen." But, you do not usually find someone trying to do both. On Dec. 21, 1998, Mark A. Merrill robbed a bank in Peotone, Illinois. A month later, he held up the First National Bank of Illinois in Mokena...read more