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Exploring rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. August 06, 2015. Will the Supreme Court Finally Play a Hand of Poker? For more than a decade, many online poker advocates have chased a quixotic dream. PPA) brought an ill-considered court challenge to Washington state's ban on online gambling (the Rousso. Case), a challenge swiftly and predictably rejected. Of the Second Circuit's DiCristina. Which held the federal Illegal Gambling Business Act applied to poker. By which Indian tribes retain sign...
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crAAKKer: Will the Supreme Court Finally Play a Hand of Poker?
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Exploring rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. August 06, 2015. Will the Supreme Court Finally Play a Hand of Poker? For more than a decade, many online poker advocates have chased a quixotic dream. PPA) brought an ill-considered court challenge to Washington state's ban on online gambling (the Rousso. Case), a challenge swiftly and predictably rejected. Of the Second Circuit's DiCristina. Which held the federal Illegal Gambling Business Act applied to poker. By which Indian tribes retain sign...
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crAAKKer: The PPA Throws In the Towel on Rousso v. State of Washington
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Exploring rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. December 23, 2010. The PPA Throws In the Towel on Rousso v. State of Washington. Judge Chamberlain Haller: Uh, Mr. Gambini? All I ask from you is a very simple answer to a very simple question. There are only two ways to answer it: guilty or not guilty. Vinny Gambini: But your honor, my clients didn't do anything. 8212; My Cousin Vinny. Yesterday, the Poker Players Alliance ( PPA. Indicating that the PPA and Lee Rousso have decided. In the United ...
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crAAKKer: Down Goes Rousso! Washington Supreme Court KOs Constitutional Challenge to Online Gambling Ban
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Exploring rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. September 24, 2010. Washington Supreme Court KOs Constitutional Challenge to Online Gambling Ban. The Washington supreme court today handed down its decision. Appeal, affirming the constitutionality of the state's outright ban of all internet gambling ( .pdf version. As my faithful crAAKKer readers will recall, this is the outcome I predicted. Earlier this year after watching oral arguments. At oral argument who seemed most skeptical of the state'...
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crAAKKer: The Usual Brackets: America's Curious Embrace of Sports Gambling
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Exploring rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. March 19, 2015. America's Curious Embrace of Sports Gambling. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that, poof. He is gone.". Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey), in The Usual Suspects. My first time winning a bracket contest was my junior year of high school. I was in a pool with a handful of guys on the basketball team, along with our coach (who was also the principal). The stakes? Where team...
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crAAKKer: Garnishing a Turd (Part III): Will SCOTUS Grant Certiorari in DiCristina?
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Exploring rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. February 21, 2014. Garnishing a Turd (Part III):. Will SCOTUS Grant Certiorari in DiCristina. We could know as early as this afternoon, and certainly by early next week, whether the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) will grant certiorari ("cert") in the DiCristina. Poker case. After reviewing DiCristina's Petition. And the Department of Justice's Brief in Opposition. The big question remains: What will SCOTUS do? And a grant of cert is a serious longshot.
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crAAKKer: Garnishing a Turd (Part I): DiCristina Goes to SCOTUS
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Exploring rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. January 06, 2014. Garnishing a Turd (Part I):. In early November, lawyers for Lawrence DiCristina filed a petition for writ of certiorari. With the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), seeking review of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision. Decision can be found here. With the United States Department of Justice's (DOJ) brief in opposition ("resistance") due to be filed today. I Obstacles Facing DiCristina. Have a right to have his...
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crAAKKer: Drawing the Line Between Gambling and Finance: Part III—The Reinsurer, the Bookmaker, the Poker Pro Staker
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Exploring rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. March 09, 2015. Drawing the Line Between Gambling and Finance:. Part III—The Reinsurer, the Bookmaker, the Poker Pro Staker. Note: This is the third article in a series looking at the legal connections between gambling and finance. The first article. Introduced the legal concept of. Aleatory contracts . Links to other articles in the series can be found at the conclusion of this article (when available). With respect to risk reduction. Meant to en...
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crAAKKer: Drawing the Line Between Gambling and Finance: Part I—Meet the Aleatory Contracts
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Exploring rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. March 08, 2015. Drawing the Line Between Gambling and Finance:. Part I—Meet the Aleatory Contracts. Randolph Duke: "Now, some of our clients are speculating that the price of gold will rise in the future. And we have other clients who are speculating that the price of gold will fall. They place their orders with us, and we buy or sell their gold for them.". Mortimer Duke: "Tell him the good part.". What do you think, Valentine? Now, I have nothing...
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crAAKKer: Tilting at Poker Windmills
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Exploring rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. April 04, 2010. Tilting at Poker Windmills. Impractical: motivated by an idealism that overlooks practical considerations. 8212; Encarta Dictionary. The ongoing legal debate regarding whether poker is a game of chance or a game of skill took another turn recently as the Pennsylvania Superior Court (an intermediate appellate court) ruled. That poker was indeed a game of chance, making home poker games illegal under the state’s gambling laws. The co...
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