Online Gambling Battle Continues in Kentucky, iMEGA Joins the Fray

Gambling News - October 18th, 2009 - Written by Glen

The Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association, iMEGA, has been one of the largest supporters of online gambling in the United States. Since the passing of the UIGEA, iMEGA has fought the hard battle of protecting Online Gambling enthusiasts and operators, working toward the liberation of the industry. Come next week, attorneys representing iMEGA will meet in the Kentucky Supreme Court to post their assessment on why the Commonwealth over stepped their jurisdiction in the seizure of over 140 domain names related to Internet gambling.

Over a year ago, courts in Kentucky seized the domain names owned and operated by some of the largest, most transparent, and highly visited poker websites. Amongst these names were both of the poker megaliths, Full Tilt and PokerStars.

On Thursday, October 22nd, the parties will meet, giving each side a quarter of an hour to present their arguments. Attorneys for iMEGA have already flexed their ligitory muscle several times this year to fight for online gambling, which has yielded positive results all across the board. iMEGA aims to protest the reasoning behind the seizures, which had been stated by Kentucky's judicial giants to be that the sites were "illegal gambling devices."

Whether or not iMEGA will score another win for the industry is still up in the air. It has been suggested that iMEGA will argue under pretenses that Due Process was violated with the seizure. Many Internet gambling websites have already blocked players from Kentucky out of fear of litigation, a fear that iMEGA hopes to suspend with their uphill battle. While they have had luck with appeals courts in the past, this struggle may prove overwhelming.

IMEGA's most recent victory for online gambling was having an appeals court decide that the states could decide whether or not they want to allow online gambling within their borders. If Kentucky wins this fight, this will be a very underhanded victory against online gambling - an outright ban would invariably prove more effective and less worthy of complaint than the quiet seizure of assets under what could very well be false pretenses.

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