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Washington State upholds
Online Gambling Ban
 March
25 - You gotta love America.
Land of milk and money and contradictions.
While very little seems to be happening to prevent the fat cats
at saturated insurance firm AIG from enjoying millions of
dollars in 'bailout bonuses',
online gambling
is still considered public enemy No.1 in Washington.
Note that that's
Washington State
not Washington D.C. (Washington State houses Seattle, the city
that provides the setting for that most irritating of TV shows,
Grey's Anatomy, and is
home
to the Space Needle
and Bill Gates. Washington D.C. is where politicians screw up
America and many other parts of the planet).
Lee Rousso's attempt to overturn a
Washington state law against online gambling
was quashed earlier this week, as an appeals court upheld a
draconian decision to back the law.
Three judges
maintained that the avid poker fan did not show that the law
caused damage to out-of-state operations.
Rousso was informed by the appeals court that he failed to
adequately prove that the state
online gambling ban
is in direct violation of the Commerce Clause of the
Constitution. The appeal came about as a result of a court
decision that Rousso lost in King County court in May last year.
The appellate judges also supported the value that state
legislators put on
preventing a growth in the social costs of online gambling.
But while the result of the appeal must have came as a blow to
Rousso - and the online gambling industry as a whole -
the plucky poker player may appeal again.
Only this time in front of the state Supreme Court, where he can
once again state his case that
online poker
requires a level of skill, which means that it's not simply a
game of chance like most casino and online casino games. And as
such it
shouldn't be lumped with casinos in the online gambling ban.
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