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Gambling
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BeLabor the Point
Gambling at Work: Everybody Out of the (Office) Pool
By Andrew Rodman, Thomas Raine
With Super Bowl LIII this Sunday and March Madness fast approaching, it is important to consider the impact of office pools on the workplace. Office pools can build workplace morale…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Issues Memo to U.S. Attorneys on the Recently Published OLC Opinion “Reconsidering Whether the Wire Act Applies to Non-Sports Gambling”
In the January 15, 2019 memorandum to all U.S. Attorneys, the Deputy Attorney General set a 90-day grace period on implementing the Office of Legal Counsel's (OLC) new opinion during which federal prosecutors should…
All About Advertising Law
The FTC is Searching for the Value in Loot
By Tyler Hale, Andrew E. Bigart, Melissa Landau Steinman
The Commissioners of the FTC agreed, during an oversight hearing on November 27, 2018, to investigate the use of "loot boxes" in video games. Senator Hassan (D-NH), following up on…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The latest SCOTUS nomination betting odds
Main July 6, 2018The latest SCOTUS nomination betting oddsI am always intrigued by betting markets, and I suppose these markets have become more of a Supreme Court story in the…
The Right Coast
Penn National, Jamul Tribe Separate GGB News
The tiny Jamul Indian Village last week took possession of the Hollywood Casino Jamul from Penn National Gaming. The San Diego tribe immediately changed the name of the casino to…
The Faculty Lounge
Murphy v. NCAA is Poorly Written and should be Narrowly Applied
Since my last post on Murphy, several scholars have been debating whether Murphy’s expansion of the anti-commandeering doctrine is significant. Illya Somin and Rick Hills argue that Murphy is relatively…
Appellate and Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court Sets a Great Precedent for Cannabis
[caption id="attachment_26353" align="alignright" width="388"] Nice work by the Court.[/caption] Back in December, we wrote about Murphy v. NCAA (“Murphy”), a case where the State of New Jersey challenged a federal…
The Faculty Lounge
Betting on Sports
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Murphy v. NCAA yesterday is the first of several blockbuster opinions expected in the next few weeks. In its decision, the Court struck down a…
Game Counsel
The Game Goes On: Sheppard Mullin Obtains Dismissal With Prejudice of Class Action Alleging Social Gaming Micro-transactions Constitute Illegal Gambling
By Sheppard Mullin, James Gatto
This blog post originally appeared on the Class Action Defense Strategy Blog on February 8, 2016 Another lawsuit alleging illegal gambling in a social game has been dismissed. Over the…
PrawfsBlawg
Card Counting and the First Amendment
Main Thursday, April 12, 2018Card Counting and the First AmendmentNeuroscientists continue to get better at reading our minds. (Technically they correlate observable brain data to our reported thoughts, but what…