{"id":10084,"date":"2020-03-03T09:53:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T09:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2020-03-03T09:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T09:55:37","slug":"wire-act-court-case-continues-online-poker-fate-remains-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/wire-act-court-case-continues-online-poker-fate-remains-in-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Wire Act Court Case Continues, Online Poker Fate Remains In Limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Online poker operators and recreational\npoker players that prefer the <strong>comfort<\/strong>\nof their homes and electronic devices to enjoy a good game of <strong>poker<\/strong>, having fun with <strong>like-minded<\/strong> people, might have to send\ntheir <strong>gratitude<\/strong> to one specific\nentity, the <strong>New Hampshire Lottery\nCommission<\/strong> <strong>(NHLC)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lottery commission in <strong>New Hampshire<\/strong> continues its fight\nthrough the lawsuit it filed in February 2019 against the DOJ interpretation of\nthe <strong>1961 Wire Act<\/strong> that potentially\njeopardized its whole operations and created fears of prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As expected, on February 26 the\ncommission filed its brief with the <strong>US\nCourt of Appeals<\/strong> for the First Circuit, in response to last-minute <strong>US Attorney General<\/strong> <strong>William Barr<\/strong> appeal against the <strong>District Court of New Hampshire<\/strong> ruling\nthat <strong>set aside<\/strong> the 2018 DOJ\ninterpretation of the Wire Act, stating it refers to sports betting <strong>only<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two other entities which provide\nthe software solutions to the lottery commission, <strong>NeoPollard Interactive LLC<\/strong> and <strong>Pollard\nBanknote<\/strong>, and also filed lawsuits against DOJ on the same date the NHLC did\nin 2019, now <strong>filed<\/strong> briefs, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case defendants in the face\nof <strong>Department of Justice (DOJ)<\/strong>, <strong>US Attorney General Barr<\/strong> and the <strong>United States<\/strong>, are already into the <strong>21 day period<\/strong> available to reply, with\ntheir responses, if they do not ask for extension, expected around March 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-wire-act-implications\">The Wire Act Implications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>1961 Federal Wire Act<\/strong>, by the time it was passed, was the federal\nresponse to illegal gambling activities mainly conducted by the organized crime\nusing telephones to accept bets remotely. It targeted interstate exchange of\ngambling information in an attempt to boost anti-gambling laws, including\ntransmissions to other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>2011<\/strong>, two states, <strong>Illinois <\/strong>and\n<strong>New York<\/strong>, requested for interpretation\nof the Wire Act, as per their intentions to start selling lottery tickets\nthrough the internet and through other out-of-state processors, and the Obama\nadministration concluded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInterstate\ntransmissions of wire communications that do not relate to a \u201csporting event or\ncontest\u201d fall outside the reach of the Wire Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Because the proposed New York and Illinois lottery proposals do not involve wagering on sporting events or contests, the Wire Act does not prohibit them\u201d.<\/p><cite> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/olc\/opinions\/2011\/09\/31\/state-lotteries-opinion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Office of Legal Counsel, DOJ<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In late <strong>2018<\/strong>, however, things went upside down due to a new interpretation of\nthe <strong>Wire Act<\/strong> by DOJ by the Trump\nadministration that <strong>reversed<\/strong> the\nprevious one completely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe conclude that the prohibitions \u2026 are not uniformly limited to gambling on sporting events or contests\u201d.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/olc\/file\/1121531\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Office of Legal Counsel, DOJ<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Being directly affected by the\nnew interpretation, in February 2019 the <strong>NHLC<\/strong>\nfiled a <strong>lawsuit<\/strong> against DOJ with the\n<strong>U.S. District Court<\/strong> for the <strong>District of New Hampshire<\/strong>, and in June\nthe court ruled for the plaintiff, bringing the biggest win for online poker in\nterms of litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As poker is not associated with sports gambling, <strong>US District Court<\/strong> ruling against DOJ opened the door for state online operators to <strong>share<\/strong> liquidity and pools of players among themselves, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/united-states-congress-plans-to-defund-doj-wire-act-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">with currently only four states<\/a>, <strong>Delaware<\/strong>, <strong>Nevada<\/strong>, <strong>New Jersey<\/strong> and <strong>Pennsylvania<\/strong>, having <strong>live<\/strong> online poker, with <strong>two<\/strong> more having legalized it, <strong>West Virginia<\/strong> and <strong>Michigan<\/strong>, vying to launch operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having lost the battle, DOJ considered\nwinning the war and filed a last-minute appeal against the District Court\nruling with the First Circuit Court of Appeals, putting poker future in a state\nof limbo again, at least until <strong>mid-March<\/strong>\n<strong>2020<\/strong>, when the judges will either\nissue a ruling or start hearing oral statements from both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Online poker operators and recreational poker players that prefer the comfort of their homes and electronic devices to enjoy a good game of poker, having fun with like-minded people, might have to send their gratitude to one specific entity, the New Hampshire Lottery Commission (NHLC). 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