What a mess in the US!
October 2nd, 2007Martin Owens, lawyer at the Law office of Martin Owens, provided a detailed, yet easily digested, description of the US legal apparatus, the status of the UIEGA act, and the approaches taken to overturn it.
After having listened, one does not give the UIEGA snowball effect act many chances in someplace warm to ever be effectively enforced. But as one attendee pointed out, that has proven uncessary since the banks will pull out at slightest indication of trouble anyway. Also, Martin Owens didn’t give Barney Frank’s IGREA bill, which has gained a lot of support lately, much chance of overturning the UIEGA either. Albeit it may fail simply based on the fact that the Senate cannot afford to lose face by overturning an act before it is even put fully into practice or appear to concede to “blackmail” from foreign gaming interests.
The salvation however, may come through the increased interest shown by the states themselves to regulate and hence allow certain types of gambling. And since gambling laws ultimately fall under state - not federal - jurisdiction this is where the battle needs to be won in the first place.
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