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Casino players in Kentucky will no longer be able to enter some U.S. online casinos because of a legal fight being led by the state's governor.

Some online casino owners have begun preventing enter to state residents a week after officials filed a lawsuit against them, said Jennifer Brislin, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Justice Cabinet. She did not immediately have a list of all the sites that would prevent Kentucky residents.

"Our objective is not to shut these sites down worldwide," Brislin said. "Our goal is to have these internet gaming sites prevented in Kentucky."

Negotiations in the legal dispute over whether states that object to U.S. online casinos can prevent their residents from entering the sites yielded no resolution before a court hearing Friday. More than 20 attorneys representing U.S. online casinos and state government argued various issues in the case, including a motion to dismiss.

Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate offered attorneys a week to file written arguments and planned another hearing for Oct. 7.

Gov. Steve Beshear, who based his election campaign last year on a promise to open casinos in Kentucky, has asked a judge to cut off enter to 141 gaming sites by giving Kentucky control of the domain names. The move affects some of the world's most popular gaming sites.

The office of Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, a well known supporter of land-based gambling, has launched court action to seize the domain names of over 140 US online casino gambling sites that seem to accept bets from residents of the state. But while the state action may satisfy sections of the Bluegrass State’s powerful gaming and racing lobby, the seizures are unlikely to hold up to close federal scrutiny, claims one legal expert.

Head attorney for the country of Antigua and Barbuda in the case against the U.S. in regards to the online casino industry in Antigua stated that the Antigua Sun Tuesday the results and current status of negotiations between the two countries will be made public next week.

Mark Mendel claimed that the talks between trade officials of the two countrys, which have continued well beyond several deadlines set for the U.S. to honor obligations put upon it when the World Trade Organization found for Antigua, should reach the next step within days.

This may involve further litigation through the World Trade Organization if the U.S. has not satisfied the debt incurred by blocking Antiguan rights to free trade in the case of the Internet gambling ban cemented by the passage of the UIGEA.

Mendel noted an investigation brought by the European Union, at the behest of the Remote casino Association, looking into similar claims of protectionist policies and selective enforcement of online casino laws may help Antigua in its case.

The amount of damages potentially to be claimed by European based Internet casinos could dwarf the award the World Trade Organization gave to Antigua. the pressure being brought by both foreign groups to hold the U.S. to free trade agreements adds to the concerns of financial institutions wary of being cast as law enforcement by the terms of the UIGEA.

In addition, law makers are noting an increased voter support for wanting less government control over their personal lives, and a return to making personal freedoms a top priority in US goverment, as evidenced by the grass-roots popularity of Ron Paul.

Finally, consumer advocates and teen counselors have urged Congress to regulate the Internet casino industry to protect citizens from criminal and dishonest gambling sites, while budget-conscious legislators note the large monetary gains possible by taxing US online casino revenues.
All of this serves to form a perfect storm of interests seeking the casting aside of the UIGEA. Antigua may still have to wait through much red tape to collect on old debts, but the online casino market in the U.S. may be reopening soon enough.

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As reported by Reuters: "A dispute over U.S. enforcement actions against EU online casino gambling companies could be headed to the World Trade Organization soon, an European industry group stated on Wednesday.

"'It looks very much as if this matter will ... be sent to the WTO at the end of the commission's investigation,' Lode Van Den Hende, outside counsel for the Remote Gambling Association, told reporters as EU officials were in Washington to probe U.S. Justice Department enforcement actions.

"That would open the door for possible European sanctions on the United States, although it could take years for any case to make its way through the WTO litigation system..."

The movement to regulate US online casinos scored its first legislative victory since the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act when The House Financial Services Committee passed Payment Systems Protection Act (PSPA) by a 30-19 vote Tuesday. A similar measure failed to make it out of committee two months ago after a 32-32 vote.

The new bill, sponsored by Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Rep Peter King (R-NY), calls on the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department to draft and implement regulations that prevent sports betting transactions from being processed within 60 days of the bill becoming law. But it halts the development of any regulations beyond sports betting until a session that involves an administrative law judge determines exactly what is legal and illegal Internet gambling. The bill also requires the Treasury Department to create and maintain a list of unlawful Internet gambling businesses, and mandates that no transactions can be blocked if a company is not on the list.

"Under this bill, at least the banks will know what is and isn't illegal," Frank said at the markup hearing. "We're asking the Treasury Department to give them a list."

Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) led the opposition to the bill, and managed to force a recorded vote after the measure had easily passed by voice vote.

"I'm disappointed that we're marking up another bill designed to impede the enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act," Bachus said. "This legislation is necessary because US online casino gambling regulations can not work like casino regulations." Bachus also told the committee that the professional sports leagues continued to oppose the delay in implementing Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act regulations, and that struck a nerve with some of the legislators at the hearing.

"I'm puzzled by pro sports opposition to this," said Rep. William Clay (D-MO). "I'm trying to find out the difference between betting at Caesars or the Tropicana in Vegas and betting on the Internet."
Clay also took exception to the professional sports leagues opposing the PSPA even though the bill allows for immediate implementation of regulation that eliminate sports betting transactions.
"If that doesn't satisfy major league sports, nothing else will," Clay said.

Frank was also disappointed by the stance of America's professional sports leagues.
"I don't see why the sports leagues get to tell people what to do," Frank said.

"How people spend their leisure time should be neither made illegal or encouraged."
The passage of the bill by the House Financial Services Committee drew immediate praise from the Poker Players Alliance (PPA).

"The PPA is pleased that the House Financial Services Committee today recognized the need to provide necessary clarification to what constitutes 'unlawful Internet gambling' under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) by passing H.R. 6870," said PPA chairman and former Senator Alfonse D'Amato.

"Even those who oppose internet gambling should applaud the passage of this legislation as it provides the most realistic opportunity to block truly unlawful internet gambling transactions."

Just last week Joe Biden's son Hunter was praised by fans of US online casinos, for choosing to represent PartyGaming owner Russ DeLeon in his efforts to lobby Congress to loosen laws against US Online Casino gambling. Several days ago, Hunter Biden and his law firm withdrew from the lobbying in favor of US online casino gambling.

Hunter Biden notified both the House and the Senate that he would no longer by a registered federal lobbyist in a written letter. The letter was supposedly dated August 25th, two days after Barack Obama named Joe Biden his choice to be his Vice-Presedential running mate, but was only revealed yesterday as the lobbying connection became a buzz.

A delegation representing the EU will be visiting in Washington, D.C., this week, to examine legal and trade representatives about Justice Department policies regarding US Online Casino gaming. After repeated complaints by the Remote Gaming Association, the organization representing European online casinos, the EU inquired in writing as to the nature of US prosecutions of legitimate foreign casino operators, despite the withdrawal of operations from the US market.

The US returned a swift answer, waving off any European concerns, which has led to the Europeans crossing the Atlantic to conduct the examiination of US policies in person.

The US is currently seeking to break free trade agreements that obligated the country to allow non US Online Casinos the opportunity to compete with domestic gaming. However, even if negotiation results in the US being freed from the responsibility to obey the treaty it signed as a member of the WTO, such a ruling would not remove or mitigate the damages done by the closing of the US Online Casino market.

Professor Joseph Weiler of the New York University School of Law said, "It is a shame that the E.U. has to go this far to seek a solution to such an unnecessary and avoidable dispute that, if not solved, will have wide-reaching consequences for the US and the systems it benefits from and needs to maintain."

Legal representatives of the RGA asserted that retroactive punishment was illegal, while trade experts predicted rocky times for the US trade relationship with the world if this case continued to fester. Congressman Peter King of New York is among Republicans who have broken with party lines to admit regulation prevents so many problems, including solving the international difficulties caused by the UIGEA, as well as taking a huge burden off the financial industry and making the online safer for children.

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