JURIST

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Government of Karnataka announced the Karnataka Police (Amendment) Act, 2021 on Tuesday, prohibiting all forms of online games involving betting, wagering and gambling of any kind in the state. However, the amendment makes an exception for lottery and betting on horse races. The amendment stipulates a ?10,000

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Law 360

APRIL 19, 2024

In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA formally lifted restrictions on athletes transferring schools and how they can receive name, image and likeness money, West Virginia's transgender sports ban is dealt a blow by the Fourth Circuit, and betting costs an NBA player his career.

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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Since single-event sports betting officially came into law in Canada with the passage of Bill C-218 on August 27th, 2021, Canadians and industry participants alike have been patiently waiting to see what shape.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

online sports bookmakers created an estimated $2.8 billion in bets, according to the American Gaming Association (AGA), a trade group. . As of August, Washington and 20 states allowed online sports betting, and the association said six states that legalized the practice have yet to launch legal wagering. .

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Law 360

MARCH 29, 2024

If you were sidelined this week, Law360 will catch you up with the sports and betting stories that had our readers talking. In this week’s Off The Bench, MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani tries to untangle himself from a gambling scandal, Virginia’s rejection sends two D.C.

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LegalReader

MAY 4, 2021

According to betting industry statistics, Americans place billions of dollars worth of bets on sports each month alone. Making it legal could really increase state revenue for Arizona.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 9, 2022

Hungary has ended the state monopoly on the online sports betting market and this now makes way for the market entry of operators incorporated in the European Economic Area (EEA) ("EEA Operators").

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Law 360

AUGUST 10, 2023

Barstool Sports offered Penn Entertainment access to a vast and passionate fanbase eager for new sports betting opportunities, but the provocative media company ultimately caused too many legal and regulatory headaches for the partnership to withstand.

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Since the legalization of sports betting in Nigeria, it became a legitimate form of entertainment that the general public embraced and while well-intentioned sportsbooks began to appear in.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

About two thirds of Kentuckians are okay with legal sports betting. * Hard to Barrett times: Supreme Court justice goes back to alma mater to speak on the tensions between precedent and equity. NDSMC Observer ]. Virginia just passed a law that will ban open air burning before 4 p.m. to help stave off forest fires. WDBJ 7 ]. *

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Law 360

DECEMBER 8, 2023

If you were on the sidelines over the past week, Law360 is here to clue you in on the biggest sports and betting stories that had our readers talking.

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LawInSport

APRIL 28, 2021

The Court of Appeal’s recent judgment in The Racing Partnership v Sports Information Services [1] is essential reading for practitioners advising those who seek to exploit live sporting data as a commercial asset. Author Hollie Higgins.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Sports betting giants including DraftKings and FanDuel have been using photographs of MLB players to promote sports betting offerings despite knowing they do not have such rights, a division of the Major League Baseball Players Association alleged in separate lawsuits filed Monday in Pennsylvania and New York.

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Law 360

APRIL 17, 2024

The NBA on Wednesday banned Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter for life for violating its gambling rules, making it the latest professional sports league to face betting-related problems in wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2018 decision striking down a federal law prohibiting states from legalizing sports betting.

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Law 360

JULY 12, 2024

The first six months of 2024 saw no shortage of action in the enforcement of sports betting rules, highlighted by a bombshell fraud case ensnaring baseball's biggest star and a messy betting scandal that saw a fringe NBA rotation player banned from the game for life.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A messy gambling and fraud scandal that victimized Major League Baseball's best player, the blackballing of an NBA journeyman and rising fears about the integrity of college sports all marked a busy year for sports attorneys tracking the patchwork of enforcement efforts to crack down on illicit betting activity.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This week's Off the Bench features Baylor University facing accountability, an NHL player put in the penalty box for sports betting and the NCAA striking out on stopping the NLRB's quest on behalf of college athletes. If you were sidelined this week, Law360 breaks down all the sports and betting stories that had our readers buzzing.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The second half of 2024 saw the sunset of several yearslong lawsuits that will significantly impact the world of sports, including the settlement of the NCAA's name, image and likeness antitrust litigation and the closing of the UFC's legal battle with current and former fighters.

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Law 360

MARCH 22, 2024

MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani enlists a Hollywood boutique to advise him amid a still-unfolding sports betting scandal, UFC forks over $335 million to settle a wage class action and Clemson's bid to join a new conference spills into court.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2022

Carmelo Polito is also accused of operating a sports betting outfit and of several counts of state and federal extortion. The detective from Nassau County, N.Y., Our active investigations show the Mafia refuses to learn from history, and accept that at some point they will face justice for their crimes.”.

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Law 360

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this week’s Off The Bench, the NFL shakes up its ownership rules and joins the rest of the pro sports world, while a former NBA player says his agency is trying to cling to him after he moved on. In case you were sidelined this week, Law360 is here to catch you up on the sports and betting stories that had our readers talking.

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Law 360

JUNE 29, 2023

The National Football League's dragnet on suspicious gambling widened Thursday as the league indefinitely suspended three players for placing bets on NFL games and docked another player six games for betting on other sports while at his team's facilities.

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Law 360

MARCH 7, 2025

Georgia lawmakers failed to push forward legislation that would have reduced corporate liability for PFAS contamination,would have given voters a say on whether to legalize sports betting and curbed diversity initiatives in schools, after having previously passed bills to advance the governor's tort reform agenda.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission administrative charges that the online sports betting platform shared nonpublic sales growth information with some of its investors through its CEO's social media without disclosing the information to all investors, the agency said Thursday. DraftKings agreed to pay a $200,000 fine to resolve U.S.

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Law 360

JUNE 7, 2024

In this week's Off The Bench, the NFL stands trial in a massive antitrust class action over its Sunday Ticket broadcast package, a series of sports betting crackdowns makes waves in the MLB and the NBA, and the U.S. Tennis Association denies any liability for a player's sexual assault by her coach.

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Law 360

AUGUST 23, 2024

Law360 is here to catch you up on the sports and betting stories that had our readers talking. The NFL comes out of the Sunday Ticket trial with a clean slate, Dartmouth is hit with an unfair labor practice charge by its basketball players, and U.S. Tennis doesn't get a do-over on its handling of a sexual assault case.

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2025

Here, Law360 looks at the top sports and betting cases the legal world will be watching in 2025. The name, image and likeness class action the NCAA settled in 2024 for $2.78 billion was a long time coming and packs a punch that will be felt for years to come.

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Law 360

MARCH 26, 2024

Online gaming and sports betting company GAN Ltd. has won its bid in California federal court to force its former chief legal officer into arbitration over claims in his wrongful firing complaint alleging his termination was motivated in part by his whistleblowing and objections to a hostile work environment.

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Law 360

APRIL 12, 2024

In this week's Off The Bench, Shohei Ohtani looks to get off the hook on sports-betting allegations while his former interpreter faces charges, the NFL wins a critical court victory in the Brian Flores lawsuit, and troubled WWE founder Vince McMahon cuts even more financial ties with the company.

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Law 360

MAY 20, 2024

billion merger with the online sports betting company that runs online casinos Betway and Spin. A shareholder of a blank-check company who's suing its sponsor and top leaders in Delaware's Court of Chancery got the green light Monday to move ahead with most of his proposed class claims related to the SPAC's $4.75

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Law 360

MAY 24, 2024

If you were sidelined this week, Law360 is here to catch you up on the sports and betting stories that had our readers talking. In this week’s Off the Bench, the NCAA settles its court dispute with hundreds of thousands of athletes over name, image and likeness compensation, NFL rookie Marvin Harrison Jr.

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Law 360

MARCH 1, 2024

If you were on the sidelines over the past week, Law360 is here to clue you in on the biggest sports and betting stories that had our readers talking. clears an early legislative hurdle in its bid to bring back its namesake NFL team.

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SCOCAblog

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Overview This article provides a pro/con analysis of Proposition 26, “California Sports Wagering Regulation and Unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act,” and Proposition 27, “California Solutions to Homelessness and Mental Health Support Act,” on the November 2022 ballot. Both measures legalize sports gambling but take different forms.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Weber , which sought to keep off the November ballot an initiative titled “ California Sports Wagering Regulation and Unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act.” That provision would apparently overturn the recent Court of Appeal opinion in Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Indians v. Flynt (2021) 70 Cal.App.5th

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

While you are required to be 21 to bet on sports in most states in which it is legal, or 18 to take part in fantasy contests in much of the US, underage activity is a cause of mounting unease. Treatment clinics are grappling with an influx of patients in their teens and early 20s and helplines are reporting record levels of calls.

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Mondaq

JULY 23, 2021

Traditional sports betting dates back to the Ancient Greeks and the Olympics. In Ancient Rome, the practice was formally legalised.

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It has taken more than three years and hundreds of hours of debate, but Ohio has finally passed legislation to legalize sports betting.

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