UIGEA News
Anti-Gambling Lawmakers Push for Online Casino Ban StartUS lawmakers Jon Kyl and Spencer Bachus asked the Treasury Department to ignore other legislators and continue apace with the implementation of the UIGEA online casino ban....
A gaming-law expert says the block on online casino payment transactions may increase rather than impede money laundering....
Online gambling is now licensed in Illinois, but that doesn't mean the UIGEA won't interfere with payment processing in the state....
Seventeen US Representatives signed a letter to the Treasury Department asking that online gambling payment processing bans not be implemented December 1st as scheduled....
Four more Congressmen have agreed to co-sponsor Barney Frank's bill regulating Internet gambling....
An appeals court's ruling against claims that the UIGEA is unconstitutional shot down a series of arguments against the law, but opened a new avenue by finding the law only acts in areas with existing online gambling bans....
Questions of jurisdiction and enforcement dog laws like the UIGEA online casino payment ban, which seeks to apply US law outside the country's borders....
The legislature of Brazil is contemplating a law similar to the UIGEA to prevent online casino payments from being processed....
Paypal is using its payment processing services once again to transfer online gambling payments, although presently US players are still excluded....
Representatives of iMEGA are worried that unexpected paths of questioning by an appellate court may indicate trouble for the case against the UIGEA and the online gambling ban....
Barney Frank addressed poker players gathered for the World Series of Poker, and said he hopes to repeal the UIGEA and regulate online casinos by next year....
Alabama Congressman Spencer Bachus says it may be difficult for gambling opponents to continue preventing the growing movement to regulate Internet casinos from succeeding....
The ongoing case byiMEGA against the UIGEA online gambling ban will be heard by a federal appeals court in the first week of July....
Following his landmark Internet gaming regulatory act, Barney Frank also introduced a bill to push back any enforcement of the UIGEA until Congress has a chance to consider the ban....
A speaker at a gaming law convention says the Frank bill to strike the UIGEA is unlikely to pass Congress, leaving online gambling to the states for rulings....
The long-anticipated bill to repeal the UIGEA ban and regulate online gambling in the US will be released within a week, says Barney Frank....
States are desperate to increase revenue by growing lottery sales, and online gambling seems to be the best path, if the UIGEA would stay out of the way....
Barney Frank will insist his bill to regulate online casino gambling be properly debated, discussed, and voted upon, even the UIGEA was not....
Several states plan to use the exemption granted in the UIGEA to host intrastate online gambling, but concerns of unwarranted UIGEA interference arise....
The US government told a federal court it should not admit new evidence that the UIGEA online gambling ban is causing unintended results because the news didn't exist when the case was first heard....
Rushmore distinguishes itself among online casinos by accepting US customers while working to protect children and problem gamblers....
Illinois lawmakers are considering plans to legalize and regulate online gambling on horse races and the lottery....
Online casino operator Sportingbet is near resolution of its conflict with the US over activity before the UIGEA ban....
The Department of Justice blocked a move by iMEGA to update its case against the UIGEA online casino ban to include evidence showing the law isn't working properly....
Pricewaterhouse released results of a study on the economic impact of taxing online gambling, concluding that the US loses tens of billions of dollars a year by not regulating online casinos....
Once again, politicians are making unwise moves in overreaction to vague threats of dangers to children, as they have done for years against online casinos....
A representative for Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank said today Frank will introduce a bill to end the online casino ban within the next month....
The head of the Illinois state Senate wants to introduce Internet gambling to the state's gaming selections, allowing for the purchase of lottery tickets online....
President Obama is moving as swiftly as possible to reverse and repudiate many of George Bush's final acts in office, and repealing the final regulations of the UIGEA attacking online casinos should be considered soon....
Initial findings that the UIGEA ban against online casino payments had led to blocked state lottery sales are now reinforced by reports of lottery sales at local stores on debit cards being denied....
One of President Obama's first moves after yesterday's Inauguration was to halt all pending midnight regulations, but the finalized UIGEA rules finished review the day before....
Senator Jon Kyl, noted for adamant resistance to online gambling, used confirmation hearings for Eric Holder as Attorney General to try to put the nominee between a rock and the UIGEA....
A market survey shows that the growth of the online casino industry has continued, with US players making up the largest market segment despite the prohibition against Internet gambling....
The incoming President's online message board has been besieged by online poker players and Internet gamblers eager to see the repeal of the UIGEA....
The Poker Players' Alliance wants people to register their disapproval of the Treasury's sudden attempt to impose regulations enforcing the UIGEA against online gambling by calling the Federal Reserve and protesting....
Representative Barney Frank asked the heads of the Treasury and the Fed to postpone installing regulations against online casinos until after the change in administrations....
The U.S. Treasury is rushing to implement the UIGEA, preventing payments to and from online casinos, before the end of term for the Bush administration....
Senator Robert Menendez plans to introduce a bill that would legalize and regulate Internet gambling on games of skill, including poker....
The Internet gambling bill Barney Frank introduced to curb the UIGEA will have to wait until the next Congress convenes to be subject to a vote....
Internet gambling in the United States may be legal and regulated soon, as a legal challenge to the UIGEA has risen to parallel the legislative ones....
Internet gambling and poker would be excluded from any UIGEA prosecutions under a new bill before Congress, leaving sports wagering as the main target....
Representatives Abercrombie and Lynch joined the group of Congressmen co-sponsoring a bill to prevent implementation of the UIGEA....
The tentacles of the UIGEA have dug their way into many unintentional pitfalls, and horse racing is just another victim of this unjust law....
More Congressmen are lining up to sponsor Barney Frank's bill which would forbid enforcement of the ludicrous UIGEA....
Jon Kyl of Arizona thinks the problem with the UIGEA is slow movement on government's part, causing a hopeful response by opponents....
Both the Treasury and the Fed received a bipartisan Congressional letter calling for the end of implementation of measures to prevent online gambling....
Barney Frank, with the support of Ron Paul, has authored a bill to stop any further attempts to enforce the UIGEA....
A Congressional investigation into the efficacy of the UIGEA hears from a multitude of witnesses that the bill is worthless....
A Congressional subcommittee will meet next week to review flaws and proposed changes to the infamous UIGEA anti-gambling bill....
The New York Racing and Wagering Board has granted Capital OTB the right to provide Internet gambling transactions on horse races....
