The U.S. ban on offshore Internet gambling payments is illegal, the World Trade Organization said yesterday, upholding a decision that allowed for sanctions.
The WTO said the United States ignored the previous ruling, which challenged the U.S. ban on payments to gambling Web sites while allowing bets on its own soil.
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The US could be forced once again to rewrite laws on online gambling after a World Trade Organisation ruling that it had failed to comply with an earlier decision.
In a case brought by the tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, a WTO arbitration panel said on Friday that the US was defying a WTO ruling made in 2005.
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Online gamblers with an interest in the Eastern European nation of Poland had reason to celebrate this week with news that the government of Poland is preparing to license and regulate online gambling.
A recent European Court of Justice ruling in favor of British bookmakers who had been banned from operating in Italy without a license is expected to be the trigger for European countries to begin regulating the online gambling industry within their borders or face trouble with the European Com…
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The Warsaw Voice had some very good news for online gamblers and online gambling firms, advising them that following the European Court of Justice in the Placanica case the Poland government is preparing to license online gambling.
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When asked in an interview about when he would challenge the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, Barney Frank replied with half of a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The interviewer, one Wendeen H. Elios, was confused at first, then cleverly figured out the clue that the wordy Congressman was giving. ‘On the 18th of April’, says the poem, and that is when Barney Frank says he will be introducing his bill, the ‘Frank bill’, to Congress.
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Monday, 26 March 2007 – The NETELLER Plc Group (“NETELLER” or the “Group”) (LSE: NLR), the leading global independent online money transfer business, today announced several significant changes to its services in a number of markets.
The Group continually assesses the risk profile and status of the markets its serves. Recent actions by regulators, payment processors, and online gaming operators have increased the uncertainty around certain activities related to online gambling in so…
The casino in the United States has a long and often illustrious history. Gambling plays a part in American history from the beginning of the colonies, in the lore of the Wild West, in the history of the underground bars during prohibition, and more. Laws concerning gambling have changed over time, with growing prohibitions against gambling followed by a relaxing of laws.
Attitudes toward gambling varied in the early American colonies. Puritan-founded colonies, not surprisingly, disapproved m…
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