That means that, by mid-June, the final lingering roadblock could be lifted-and regulators in states like Michigan and Pennsylvania could sign deals with other regulators and allow online poker operators to combine player pools between states without concern that such actions would violate federal law. If the DOJ does not escalate its appeal during this timeframe, it hopefully means the end of the entire legal battle. It also set the clock ticking-giving the losing party 90 days to file a petition for the US Supreme Court to take up the case. It formalized a previous judgement to dismiss the Department of Justice’s appeal. The formal mandate filed this month was another procedural step in the long-running saga.
DreamSailors, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 LicenseĪ mandate issued by the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in March 2021 is hopefully the beginning of the end of a two-year failed effort by the Trump-era Office of Legal Counsel ( OLC) to reinterpret the Wire Act so that it applies to more than just sports betting.
