Legal

PokerTrillion.com, a former member of Boss Media's International Poker Network which launched litigation against the Malta assets of the Swedish company earlier this year has been successful in its latest round of litigation with the poker network.

The Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association may not have achieved all of its objectives in its last constitutional clash with the US government over the UIGEA, but it was given legal standing by the court and it plans to launch a further attack before the end of September 2008.

The Poker Players Alliance was active this week in urging US players to promote the rights of citizens to play poker online, using the Republican Platform Committee's official Internet message board. The purpose of the website is to obtain public comment and suggestions on what should be included in the party's campaign platform for the coming presidential elections.

The management at US-based Sting Marketing Inc found they had disturbed a hornet's nest when they tried to use the brand of an industry veteran in a domain registration, according to the results of a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) investigation recently.

The Poker Players Alliance might not support Representative Pete Sessions's HR6663 but the Remote Gambling Association - a trade association embracing most of the major UK online gambling companies - certainly does.

The American Gaming Association, an influential US trade body that counts many top land casinos on its membership list, continues to follow Internet gambling affairs closely, and spent $400,000 on lobbying in the second quarter of 2008, according to mandatory amended disclosures this week.

The US enforcement regime has been urged by two US legislators to halt its pursuit of European online gambling companies active in the US market prior to the promulgation of the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

Latest information on Assemblyman Lloyd Levine's proposal to liberalise poker in California is that his bill AB 2026 has undergone another revision, taking it back to a study of the prospects for the game within California.

The Ho Chi Minh City department of Information and Communications has asked its controlling structure, the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications, to examine eight online games which have been generating massive interest in Internet cafes and other outlets among students and citizens alike.

The chairman of the one million member Poker Players Alliance, Former Senator Alphonse D'Amato says that the Alliance cannot support Texas Representative Pete Session's Bill HR6663 because it confuses a clear judicial understanding of the status quo of online poker.