Continuing their staunch opposition to federal-based efforts to legalize and regulate online gaming, the Morongo are currently at the forefront of controversial efforts to authorize intrastate poker in the state of California.
Domestic interests – including state lotteries and Indian tribes – were strengthened by amendments added to Rep. Barney Frank's bill to regulate online gambling in the United States, which was approved by the House Financial Services committee this week.
As momentum to legalise an intra-state internet regime builds in the US, fears over the Department of Justice’s stance on internet gaming looks set to provide the greatest stumbling block.
The New York Lottery says it is confident that the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice will not stand in the way of its plans to begin offering Internet games.
As Governor Bob Riley’s anti-gambling crackdown intensifies and continues to threaten the state’s many bingo halls, industry leaders have called upon Alabama state lawmakers to respond with a legislative fix.
Senior officials in the Obama administration have indicated for the first time the urgency with which they are pursuing congressional action to remedy the implications of the recent Supreme Court decision that would limit the ability of US tribes to establish off-reservation casino facilities.
