Gambling, Declaratory Judgments

Two More Tribes Enter Suit Over California Card Rooms’ Banked Games

Snell & Wilmer on 4/17/2025

“Defendants [California card rooms] operate, participate in, and facilitate illegal gambling,” according to a complaint filed on April 1, 2025, by the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians (the Rincon Band) and the Santa Ynez Band...more

Implications from New Hampshire Lottery Commission v. Barr

Hogan Lovells on 6/18/2019

In a recent decision that inures to the benefit of the online gambling industry, a federal district court in New Hampshire held that the “the text, context, and structure of the Wire Act” limit its applicability to sports...more

Federal Court “Discards” DOJ Interpretation Of Wire Act

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/4/2019

In a closely watched case, a New Hampshire federal court has ruled that the Wire Act is limited to sports betting and set aside the DOJ’s recent opinion to the contrary. However, it limited the scope of its declaratory relief...more

DOJ Asserts Wire Act Opinion Doesn’t Cover Lotteries

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/12/2019

In an effort to side-step the lawsuit filed against it by the New Hampshire Lottery (and others), the Department of Justice (DOJ) asserts that its recent reinterpretation of the Wire Act doesn’t apply to lotteries. As we...more

New York’s Authorization of Fantasy Sports Ruled Unconstitutional

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/1/2018

On October 26, 2018, Justice Gerald W. Connolly of the New York Supreme Court for Albany County ruled in White v. Cuomo (Index No. 5861-16) that New York’s 2016 authorization of fantasy sports violated the state constitution....more

Wealth Management Update - May 2017

Proskauer Rose LLP on 5/10/2017

May Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The May § 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and GRATs...more