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The US online casino gambling and betting industry could get a really big break this week if the top courts in the US decide to uphold the iMEGA appeal that contends that the UIGEA is flawed and that implementation of the act should be suspended until the legislation can face an overhaul. iMEGA represents the interests of the US online casinos and interactive gambling companies and has taken this case, against the US Department of Justice, all the way to the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. The judges are set to hear the case on July 7th, 2009 and there is a high level of anxiety now running through the industry as that day nears and a judgment is coming soon. There is actually a decent chance that iMEGA can win the case, especially consider the tide of public opinion on the UIGEA has swung seriously to the negative over the past two years.

Both sides have been forced to submit their briefings and their arguments, a key point in the iMEGA case is the fact that the UIGEA was passed through without thorough considerate and it was implemented prematurely. The case goes to say that as it is written it unfairly targets the online casino gambling industry without giving clear languages and definitions for the activities that are no prohibited.

The case is going to be decided by a panel of three judges that will hear the oral arguments for both sides. Also central to the iMEGA case is the fact that iMEGA is not arguing for the online casinos, or the legalization of the industry, but just making a case for the unconstitutionality of the UIGEA and the fact that the UIGEA is just straight-out flawed. Complete defective. iMEGA is banking on the three judges reading through the legislation and agreeing that there are some egregious flaws in the legislation.