Re: Can the issue of online poker legality be resolved?
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Courts can't give advisory opinions in this country. It would need to come up as an essential element to a case of some kind, civil or criminal. So unless and until there is some prosecution or other action, the resolution of which depends on a determination of whether or not people playing poker is against federal law (so not arising in a state where it is illegal), we will only be able to speculate.
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That is what I thought too. Frustrating isn't it. OTOH, if enough time goes by without the DOJ prosecuting anyone for owning, advertising or playing online poker maybe the online gambling industry and ewallets will reopen to the US online poker market.
There is the WTO case, but I don't think that the Bush Administration will take any action to comply with it.
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