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The Gambling Dispute: Another Front Opens

In addition to the DSU Article 22 proceedings, the GATS Article XXI compensation issues and the U.S. legislative issues, there is now another aspect to the Gambling dispute: a constitutional challenge. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, an attorney in Washington state, Lee Rousso, "sued the state of Washington

The Gambling Case: Suspension and Compensation

While the WTO negotiations flounder, the WTO dispute process carries on. Antigua's DSU Article 22.2 suspension request in the Gambling case is now available. In it, Antigua requests authorization to suspend concessions and obligations in the amount of US$3.443 billion per year to match the

Developments in the Gambling Dispute

According to press reports, the U.S. is planning to "clarify" its GATS commitments relating to gambling services, pursuant to GATS Article XXI: The United States said Friday it was not required to comply with a WTO ruling to open its borders to the Internet gambling industry because

Gambling Compliance Report

All WTO gambling dispute reports are filled with perplexities and the latest one, the Article 21.5 in US - Gambling dated 30 March, contains many. One that I will call the trade community's attention to comes in para. 5.9 wherein the panel laments the pre-publication of

The Gambling Dispute: The Interim Report

Reuters reports that the panel in the US - Gambling Article 21.5 dispute has issued its interim report, finding that the United States did not comply with the original rulings: The United States has suffered a new setback in a four-year-old legal battle with Antigua and Barbuda over U.

The Future of the Online Gambling Ban

In an earlier post, I optimistically predicted that the online gambling ban would be repealed or modified in a little over two years. This article makes my prediction seem way off the mark: Even if more libertarian minds prevail in the online gambling debate, Stewart says it could take at

Why Did the U.S. Ban Online Gambling?

In a draft paper posted on SSRN, someone argues that the U.S. online gambling ban was not about public morals-type issues at all, but solely about keeping gambling revenues in the U.S. (The author is Dana Gale -- I'm not sure who that is, and SSRN

The Gambling Case: More Complainants?

I had been wondering whether the EU would bring a complaint against the new U.S. online gambling ban, adding significant support to Antigua's existing complaint (the EU's sanctions would obviously be more potent than Antigua's sanctions). It appears that Antigua's lawyers

All Bets Are Off (Literally)

It's official: Due to legislation signed today, online gambling is now banned in the U.S. This means, of course, that the weekly internet poker game among IELP blog members is cancelled. (For the Americans among us, anyway -- the non-Americans can carry on as usual. We Americans

Gambling Case In the News

Paul Blustein of the Washington Post has a good article on the Gambling dispute (you might have to register with the Post's site to read it). In it, he discusses Jay Cohen, whose arrest by the U.S. for running an internet gambling site from Antigua and Barbuda