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Late last week, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced yet another bill intended to temper the effects of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. His bill, called the Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act of 2008 (S.

U.S. Senator Robert Menendez has introduced a new bill, S. 3616, aimed to legalize and regulate Internet skill games in the United States. The Bill, deemed “Internet Skill Games Licensing and Control Act of 2008”, would effectively decriminalize the transfer of funds for the purpose of playing online poker, bridge and mahjong.

The US Senate is hard at work … as we speak/type/read, they’re fixin’ to vote on their version of the Bush-Obama-McCain-endorsed $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill (currently at 450 pages) … hope that works out the way it should. Meanwhile, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has introduced S.

News flashed across the wires on Tuesday night that Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) had introduced S 3616, the Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act. The bill, according to its text, “provides for the licensing of Internet skill game facilities.” The bill, which provides for a full regulatory

A number of news sites are reporting that U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, has introduced a new bill into the U.S. Senate that aims to license and regulate online poker. The goal of the bill, officially known as S.

The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) just filed a brief with the US Court of Appeals challenging the constitutionality of the UIGEA on the basis of it being “void for vagueness.” iMEGA had already filed a suit against the UIGEA in March of this year with mixed results:

A Kentucky court in Frankfort held another hearing Friday, September 26, that resulted in freezing the previous court ruling which called for 141 online gambling domains to be seized by the Commonwealth of Kentucky due to illegal online gambling operations.

In a stunning development today a clandestine operation by the US government to fund the historic bailout of companies AIG, Lehman, and several others was uncovered. As Congress waivers on whether to support and pass the near TRILLION dollar deal, it’s now being reported that the Bush administration is talking to PokerStars to help.

As you probably already know, the Franklin Circuit Court of Kentucky has ordered the seizure of 141 online gambling domain names declared by the courts to be guilty and/or in connection with illegal online gambling activities pertaining to residents of the state.

Poker players and those involved in the online poker industry were  absolutely flabbergasted this morning when browsing the online poker news headlines, their email boxes, and poker forums, they found that a court judge in Kentucky, USA, has ordered the seizure of 141 poker and gambling domains, to be transferred to ownership of the plaintiff – the Commonwealth of Kentucky.