Lawsuit for Betting Clarification
The United States’ online casino gambling and betting market it full of
contradictions and many of these have made the headlines over the past several
years after the UIGEA caused some major disruptions in the offshore and US
gambling industry. One change that is traditionally mostly overlooked through
are the sports betting restrictions in the US that are in place for 48 US states
– four states were given exemptions in the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports
Protection Act. The NFL and major sporting organizations in the US have rallied
strongly to keep the new legislation only covering the US online casinos
operating – there is a lot of pressure from the sporting organizations to keep
federal legislation in place against US sports betting across the US.
iMEGA and several other interest groups that operate with the interests of the
e-gaming industry (this includes online casinos, poker, sports betting, and
more) have raised a lawsuit against the US government because of these sports
betting blocks. The federal legislation supersedes the state’s right to pass its
own gambling policies and makes all forms of both land and online casino sports
betting illegal. New Jersey was one of the most effected states by the 1992 Act
because the state has a thriving land gambling industry and yet is not allowed
to offer sports wagering like its competition – Las Vegas.
Nevada, Delaware, Montana, and Oregon were all given pass in the 1992
legislation and they are allowed to offer forms of betting. iMEGA is working on
behalf of the other US states in efforts to force the government to either
rework the 1992 legislation or override that legislation by adding internet
betting to the pending online casino gambling bill that is currently working
through the House and the Senate in the US government. |