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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.