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The California poker account seizure cases are still going on strong right now and the New York officials who authorized the seizure are dead-set prosecuting Account Services and any payment processing companies that facilitate online casino and poker gambling in the US. The UIGEA gives the federal government and the US Department of Justice the power to block and ban financial transactions with gambling related sites. The chief concern though from groups like the Poker Players Alliance and other organizations supporting an open and free online casino gambling market, is that there is a difference of opinion about classifying internet poker as gambling.

The PPA has now filed amicus curiae to the California courts in an effort to lend some advice and knowledge to the courts about the online casino poker gambling industry. The Amicus Brief Motion, if accepted, will allow the PPA to act as, literally, a “friend of the court” during the proceedings. The online casinos are banned in the US but the PPA asserts that poker should not be lumped in with that form of gambling. That is likely part of the information that the PPA plans to share as a “friend of the court.”

The court case specifically contests the government’s seizure of online casino poker gambling funds that players were using at the offshore based internet poker sites. The PPA plans to work on behalf of the players and assert that they deserve to have their account funds unfrozen and promptly returned – the US UGIEA does not actually allow the government to punish the internet gamblers themselves for online gambling activities.