Online casinos setback in New Jersey

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The recent ruling by a judge in the U.S. state of New Jersey has set back hopes that online casinos would be granted a little more of an air of legitimacy. While there is no U.S. law nor any New Jersey state law which specifically calls online gambling illegal, Judge Salem Vincent Ahto of Belleville, New Jersey stated that, “Simply because the Legislature has not gotten around to directly labeling online gambling as a crime does not mean it is lawful.” The argument had centered on whether Nicholas Drakos, 48, could run an online casinos recommendation site legally in the United States.

Drakos’ lawyer had stated the glaring absence of specific anti-online casinos gambling laws in the U.S. and New Jersey meant that if “the defendant hosted the Web site known as International Net Casino, and instructed bettors on how to set up accounts to place wagers on professional and collegiate sports events, he did so without knowing or thinking that he was committing a crime.” Anti-online gambling laws in the U.S. are few and far between, limited to a few individual states, while the federal government interprets old laws concerning gambling over phone lines as applicable to a de facto ban on online gambling operations or use in the U.S.

Though the Drakos case may be small cookies compared to other online casinos cases which may be brewing, should Mr. Drakos and his lawyer, Robert Dunn, take the case to appeal it could end up in the U.S. Supreme Court, where any decision on online casinos there would have the force of law even without the legislation for or against the use of operation of online casinos on U.S. soil. Online casinos are fighting for legitimacy and legality not just in the U.S. but Canada and Australia as well, and other courts around the world may look to that recent U.S. New Jersey court ruling for some sort of idea of a precedent.

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