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The Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association seem confident that their two major legal battles in defense of online casinos will have a positive outcome.  The case involving the commonwealth of Kentucky is about to be tried in front of a Supreme Court, but according the iMEGA Chairman, Joe Brennan, the state do not have any new arguments and the victory won in the Appeals case should stand.

Meanwhile, in Minnesota, a deadline approaches for Internet service providers to respond to a mandate from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety to block access to over 200 online casinos and Internet gambling domains.  According to the Minnesota government the blacklist is to block Minnesota residents from gambling at online casinos.  There are problems with the list.  The first is that some of the sites on the list do not have anything to do with online casinos and many of the online casinos included on the list do not except wagers from players in the United States let alone Minnesota.

“Every one we’ve spoken to agrees that Minnesota lacks jurisdiction and authority under the Wire Act. At this time, they’re not going to reply,” said Brennan.

Surprisingly communication between iMEGA and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety have been anything but hostile.  In fact they have revealed to Brennan that John Willems, Director of the Department of Public Safety’s Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division, may have very little experience with the level of high profile case the two organizations are gearing up for.

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