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California Challenges Interior’s Trust Acquisition for Koi Nation Casino

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Earlier this month, the State of California (the State) and Governor Gavin Newsom filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California seeking to vacate the Department of the Interior’s (the...more

Stinson LLP

A Victory for DFS and the "Predominate Factor Test"

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On April 16, 2020, the Illinois Supreme Court officially adopted the "predominate factor test" and ruled in Dew-Becker v. Wu (2020 IL 124472) that daily fantasy sports (DFS) are, in fact, games of skill, and therefore...more

Hogan Lovells

Implications from New Hampshire Lottery Commission v. Barr

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In a recent decision that inures to the benefit of the online gambling industry, a federal district court in New Hampshire held that the “the text, context, and structure of the Wire Act” limit its applicability to sports...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New Hampshire Hold ‘Em: Federal Decision Sets Aside Latest DOJ Wire Act Opinion

• On June 3, 2019, a federal court in New Hampshire ruled in favor of a New Hampshire state agency in concluding that “the text, context, and structure of the Wire Act” limit the Act’s applicability to sports gambling and no...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

The Wire Act Applies Only to Sports Gambling, For Now

On June 3, 2019, a federal court in New Hampshire issued a highly anticipated decision in New Hampshire Lottery Commission et al. v. Barr et al., challenging a recent opinion by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Federal Court “Discards” DOJ Interpretation Of Wire Act

In a closely watched case, a New Hampshire federal court has ruled that the Wire Act is limited to sports betting and set aside the DOJ’s recent opinion to the contrary. However, it limited the scope of its declaratory relief...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

DOJ Asserts Wire Act Opinion Doesn’t Cover Lotteries

In an effort to side-step the lawsuit filed against it by the New Hampshire Lottery (and others), the Department of Justice (DOJ) asserts that its recent reinterpretation of the Wire Act doesn’t apply to lotteries. As we...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

DOJ Sued Over its Reinterpretation of the Wire Act

It didn’t take long. The New Hampshire Lottery has sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prevent enforcement of the DOJ’s opinion (issued last month) reinterpreting the Wire Act. As we reported last month, the DOJ reversed...more

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