Did the bill legalize internet gambling in the US?

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/061019/0174566.html

"The bill permits Web-based betting on horse racing and for state lotteries. It also allows state-licensed casinos, once authorized within their jurisdiction, to construct Web sites with online poker and casino-style gaming. And these casinos would be allowed to provide links to other states and countries where gambling is legal."

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yes it did at least it said they were not illeagal

trytrytry said:

yes it did at least it said they were not illeagle

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Books Worst Enemy said:

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/061019/0174566.html

"The bill permits Web-based betting on horse racing and for state lotteries. It also allows state-licensed casinos, once authorized within their jurisdiction, to construct Web sites with online poker and casino-style gaming. And these casinos would be allowed to provide links to other states and countries where gambling is legal."

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The quote is from the Las Vegas Review Journal and according to my reading of the Act is not completely accurate regarding casinos being able to provide online interstate gaming.

1. Nothing in the Act changes any State or Federal Law with respect to gambling in the United States as this is simply an enforcement law.

2. Gambling is a States rights issue and States are free to make law in this area. However note that when the North Dakota legislature planned to vote in online poker they got a threatening letter from the DOJ .

3. The Act defines "illegal internet gambling" to place, receive or transmit a bet using the Internet where the bet is unlawful under any Federal or State law where the bet is initiated, received or made.

4. Intrastate Transactions. This is the interesting part. Unlawful internet gambling does not apply to placing, receiving and transmitting a bet wholly within a single State provided it is in accordance with State law.

5. Now it gets really interesting. The next section on Intratribal transactions excludes bets made both within the Indian lands of a single tribe and between the Indian lands of 2 or more tribes to the extent that intertribal gaming is authorized by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

This suggests that this Federal law clarifies Intrastate onling gambling and presumeable allows Interstate onling gambling between Indian lands. Of course if the Feds allow Interstate online gambling between Indian lands it is only fair that they also do so for non-Indian lands in States where such activity is legal. This may have been the assumption the LV Review Journal made.

Note: I am not a lawyer but fortunately the Act is written in plain English and not legalese.

Dante said:

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I'm impressed that you have a picture of a "ill eagle" on your hard drive for just this occasion ; )

Me

da1prophet said:

I'm impressed that you have a picture of a "ill eagle" on your hard drive for just this occasion ; )

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Me too, but then it's Dante's Halloween costume. :howdy:

I thought it was Kyhawk.

Woody0 said:

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Me too, but then it's Dante's Halloween costume. :howdy:

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you are correct sir but I asked you not to share that one woody that was me at the last office party...what a HIT I was ... :homer: girls loved that hospital smock