Author: Dustin Gouker

Legal Ontario online casinos and sportsbooks are coming, and operators are lining up to serve the regulated market. How will the market shake out? We take a look at it in the various buckets of operators we’ll see enter Ontario. Articles in this series I: The Canadian Status Quo II: The Goal And The Approach […]

The launch of regulated online gambling in Ontario is unique in the relatively short history of iGaming in North America. Consider the following: Ontario is the first jurisdiction to allow for a nearly open market for all comers in both online casino and sports betting. It’s the first Canadian province to break away from the […]

The case about the enforcement and breadth of the federal Wire Act is not over yet. The Department of Justice filed its intent to appeal a district court decision on the Wire Act to the First Circuit Court of Appeals. In June, a federal judge in the New Hampshire District ruled that the Wire Act […]

New Jersey and Michigan have joined the legal challenge against the Department of Justice‘s latest interpretation of the Wire Act. We’ve confirmed that New Jersey filed an amicus brief on Friday in the case started by New Hampshire in federal court. You can read the filing here. Later on Friday, the Michigan Lottery also filed an amicus brief, including 11 […]

Lotteries in the United States made their displeasure known with the recent change in the interpretation of the Wire Act by the Department of Justice. Lotteries vs. DOJ The North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL) issued a statement on Monday saying the reversal on Wire Act guidance is bad for the industry. […]

The Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel has issued a replacement for its 2011 opinion which said that the Wire Act only applies to sports betting. The new opinion now makes the Wire Act applicable to any form of gambling that crosses state lines, including online gambling and online lottery. Several states have legalized […]

The Department of Justice is preparing an opinion that will likely say that the Wire Act applies to all forms of online gambling and not just sports betting. That would be an apparent reversal of the 2011 Office of Legal Counsel opinion that the Wire Act only applies to sports wagering. The new opinion could come […]