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DLA Piper

UK gambling operator faces legal action over refusal to pay out GBP1m jackpot

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The UK and European gambling operator Paddy Power is fighting a legal action in the English High Court over a refusal to pay a customer who thought they had won a GBP1m jackpot when playing an online slot game. Paddy Power...more

Kaufman & Canoles

K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - February 2024 #4

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The first person charged for violating a 2020 law that forbids conspiracies to taint international sports events through performance-enhancing drugs received a three-month prison sentence. Federal prosecutors used the...more

Dickinson Wright

Atlantic Lottery Corporation Inc. v. Babstock: A Resounding Success at the Supreme Court of Canada for Dickinson Wright LLP

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In a close 5 to 4 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, Michael D. Lipton, Q.C. and Kevin J. Weber emerged on July 24, 2020 as part of the successful side in the case of Atlantic Lottery Corporation Inc. v. Babstock....more

Hogan Lovells

“Come one, come all”: the Court of Appeal opens the floodgates and expands the scope of the jurisdictional gateways

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Eurasia v Aguad [2018] EWCA Civ 1742 - The Court of Appeal (“CoA“) has held that two of the “general grounds” jurisdictional gateways (as opposed to those gateways which operate only in relation to a specific type of...more

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No contractual duty to protect spread betters against themselves

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A spread betting company owed no contractual duty to protect a customer from his own gambling addiction or considered choices. “Very clear express words” would be required to give rise to a contractual duty to protect parties...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Eighth Circuit Finds Standing in Data Breach Case for Privacy Policy Violation, Dismisses for Lack of Specificity

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has held that allegations that the security provisions of a privacy policy were violated are sufficient for standing in a data breach case, but that plaintiffs’ contractual...more

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Gaming Legal News - March 22, 2013 • Volume 6, Number 7

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In This Issue: - “NO MORE BETS”: ONTARIO COURT OF APPEAL DISMISSES “FLOATING BALL”1 CASE: “The process of removing a floating ball from the wheel, declaring a ‘nospin’, and rendering all bets void has no...more

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