Ruling on ban challenge

The Internet gaming prohibition has caused serious damages in business income to all online casinos and internet gaming sites, forcing them to seek legal measures to stop the ban from being enforced in their own sites allowing them to continue business transactions and recuperate from the blows their economies have suffered.

In this spirit, the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association presented a challenge in a federal court in Trenton to stop the ban from being enforced on their online casinos and gaming sites. The challenge was dismissed, but it did give the group enough legal standing to present another challenge, this time in an appellate court.

The U.S. District Honourable Judge Mary L. Cooper determined that the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association did not prove with sufficient evidence their cause and petition for her to block the enforcement of the Unlawful Internet gambling enforcement act of 2006. This prohibition intends to stop altogether all the electronic processing of money to and from the online casinos and internet gaming sites, whether online wagers, payouts or gain claims.

The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association grounds to present the challenge were the attack to the U.S. Constitution when the prohibition attacks fundamental principles like the freedom of speech and the invasion of privacy since the ban pretends that courts determine what will people be allowed to do in the privacy of their own homes.

Furthermore, in an interview, the chairman of the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association, Mr. Joe Brennan said that this law criminalizes an activity that is legal when it is carried out offline in 48 of the 50 states that conform the United States of America. In addition, continued saying that if it is legal when practiced offline, then the logical thing would be for it to legal when practiced online.

When the U.S. Federal Judge, Honourable Mary L. Cooper interview took place, she said that the group’s claims are a blatant disagreement with the Congress judgment to ban online casinos and internet gaming sites and rebates its effectiveness.

However, she said it is not the place of a court to speculate on the wisdom of Congress or the effectiveness of the law and explains that the ban was legally enacted and does not violate the Constitution, regardless of the IME&G Association’s perceptions or disagreements. The IME&G Association are free to present another challenge but this time in a federal appeals court.

Despite the challenge was dismissed the IME&G Association does not perceives this as a defeat but as a failure and its chairman, Mr. Brennan said that the appeal will be presented within the next two months.

Overall, the U. S. Department of Justice, when interviewed, issued a stoic statement: They will review the decision.

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