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The online casino gambling industry is not actually illegal on a state basis in most of the individual US states. The UIGEA is a piece of federal legislation that specifically blocks the internet gambling industry at the financial transaction level but does not actually go so far as to make the game illegal for US gamblers themselves. That means that the in the vast majority of the US, gamblers who can find online casinos willing to take their money and accept US players will not face legal action just for gambling through the internet. There are notable exceptions of course, the Washington State government has made online gambling a federal offense. And now other states are actually following suit in an alarming trend that has the state governments trying to prosecute gamblers who use the online casinos.

The latest news in the online casino gambling industry indicates that now state attorney generals are ignoring their state laws and indiscriminately making internet gambling illegal in the state. The thing is, it just isn’t in most US states. The Attorney General in Massachusetts has started to enforce and support a law in the state that doesn’t even exist. All of this new action from the US states is largely supported by objectors to a legalized US gambling market that regulates and licenses online casinos.

The cases that are now going through the courts support the gamblers and their right to gamble at the online casinos unless state law specifically already prohibits gambling. An Appeals Court in the US has upheld rulings that internet gamblers can not be prosecuted for UIGEA actions unless there is specific legislation clearly in place. Massachusetts though is just one of the states that doesn’t seem to care about that fact and even the Appeals Court ruling isn’t likely to stop the Attorney General from trying to enforce non-existent anti-online gambling measures.