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The Internet Gambling Meeting with Nevada and Feds had been delayed

10/8/2001

Nevada Gaming Commission chairman, Brian Sandoval did lots of legal homework before seeking a meeting with the U.S. Department of Justice discussing the Internet gaming legality. The Commission will hold two-days online gaming seminar, which will be devoted to technical and legal, issues next week.
A meeting with the Regulators and the Department of Justice to determine their interpretation of the federal law, specifically the Wire Act, and its applicability to the Nevada law should has occurred, however, and Sandoval told RGT Online Friday that he doesn?t want to have such a meeting ?without having the benefit of having done our own independent legal research.?
U.S. District Court Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. explicitly said in that ruling: ?At this point in time, Internet casino gambling is not a violation of federal law.? He said the 1961 federal Wire Act only applies to sports betting.
Nevada?s move to legalize interactive gambling won?t be welcome at the Justice Department. Under the Clinton administration, the Department believed the Wire Act, perhaps with modifications, was sufficient to prosecute Internet casino gambling operations. That was the reason it gave for opposing Congressional efforts to specifically prohibit Internet gambling.
Now the Department is headed by Ashcroft, a far-right Republican who is opposed to gambling as well as alcohol and even dancing. When he was a U.S. Senator representing Missouri, Ashcroft, supported a Senate bill sponsored by Jon Kyl, Republican-Arizona, to prohibit Internet gaming.
?We have full respect for the federal government and if the Justice Department says this is an illegal activity, we?ll have to respect that,? Sandoval said Friday. ?But certainly it is the responsible thing to do begin the process by first educating ourselves before we even get into a rule-making process. There?s a lot of value to educating regulators as well as the public with regard to Internet gaming.?

To that end, the Nevada Gaming Commission has scheduled an ?Informational Seminar? next week, on July 31 and Aug. 1, at the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. Dan Wade, the vice chairman of MGM Mirage, which is eager to offer online gaming, will make opening remarks.
For legal and economic issues of interactive gaming sessions. Visit Nevada Gaming Commission web site for detailed agenda.
The authorizes the state?s regulators to license Nevada hotel-casinos for offering interactive gaming if the regulators find that it can be done legally and regulated effectively at Nevada law in July 1.