Update in Kentucky

11/03/2008		Update in Kentucky
Home History Games News Dictionary		An update on the Beshear action in Kentucky reveals that Judge Thomas Wingate has rejected several pleas for the case to be dismissed. Online casino operators and owners of the website domains in question will have to be patient as the legal action continues. November 17th marks the date when the suit will return to court, and both sides will have the opportunity to have their cases heard. In the meantime, the sites are responsible for blocking accessibility to the state of Kentucky until a final ruling can be filed. If they fail to comply, there is the danger of losing the domain names permanently. Governor Steve Beshear filed the motion to seize the domain names for 141 different gambling websites on behalf of the financial crisis for the state of Kentucky. He supports the expansion of gambling, however, he wants it to be on land so that the state’s taxes will enjoy the bump in income. Kentucky currently hosts horse racing, state lotteries, and bingo. Online casinos do nothing for his bottom line. Negotiations were suggested by the law council for the websites in question. Judge Wingate’s postponement of the case allows a month for said negotiations to take place. No word has been given on what Beshear would want from the sites in order to keep the online casinos legal. Initially, the law team for the websites asked that the case be thrown out, on account of the first amendment. Judge Wingate disagreed. The Chairman of iMEGA, Joe Brennan Jr, had strong words in response to Wingate’s refusal: “This decision must not be allowed to stand, because of the threat it poses to the Internet as a whole. Judge Wingate has ignored the clear laws of his own state in coming to a decision that essentially green-lights any jurisdiction,in the US and abroad, to ignore our rights and abuse their power to do away with competition or speech or content with which they oppose, regardless of the law.”

11/03/2008

Update in Kentucky

An update on the Beshear action in Kentucky reveals that Judge Thomas Wingate has rejected several pleas for the case to be dismissed. Online casino operators and owners of the website domains in question will have to be patient as the legal action continues.

November 17th marks the date when the suit will return to court, and both sides will have the opportunity to have their cases heard. In the meantime, the sites are responsible for blocking accessibility to the state of Kentucky until a final ruling can be filed. If they fail to comply, there is the danger of losing the domain names permanently.

Governor Steve Beshear filed the motion to seize the domain names for 141 different gambling websites on behalf of the financial crisis for the state of Kentucky. He supports the expansion of gambling, however, he wants it to be on land so that the state’s taxes will enjoy the bump in income. Kentucky currently hosts horse racing, state lotteries, and bingo. Online casinos do nothing for his bottom line. Negotiations were suggested by the law council for the websites in question. Judge Wingate’s postponement of the case allows a month for said negotiations to take place. No word has been given on what Beshear would want from the sites in order to keep the online casinos legal.

Initially, the law team for the websites asked that the case be thrown out, on account of the first amendment. Judge Wingate disagreed. The Chairman of iMEGA, Joe Brennan Jr, had strong words in response to Wingate’s refusal: “This decision must not be allowed to stand, because of the threat it poses to the Internet as a whole. Judge Wingate has ignored the clear laws of his own state in coming to a decision that essentially green-lights any jurisdiction,in the US and abroad, to ignore our rights and abuse their power to do away with competition or speech or content with which they oppose, regardless of the law.”