Will the Commerce Clause Save Online Gambling?

15 July 2005

By Lawrence G. Walters

While issues such as international treaties, extraterritorial statutory application, and comity may pose difficult (if not insurmountable) barriers to the application of state law to a licensed offshore gambling enterprise with no other presence in the United States, another barrier may be lurking in the United States Constitution. The individual states may lack the constitutional authority to regulate the offering of online gambling services to their residents under the somewhat esoteric principal known as the “dormant” Commerce Clause.

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