7/10/2007 iMEGA Suit Against UIGEA Strongest Fight Against the US Bill

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Joe Brennan, Jr., iMEGA founder and a former executive of AOL, quoted in Gambling911.com:

"The UIGEA can still be enforced prior to the September 4 date," he said. "But we feel confident that the judge will prevent that from happening."

Brennan went on to explain how enforcement of the UIGEA would only serve to make the judge's job more cumbersome.

"She (the judge) will then have to wade through all the rules and regulations in addition to reviewing our complaint."

This is possibly the publicly posted reasoning I have ever seen, even on Gambling911. (Please note the crucial transitional paragraph is not a direct quote) Did iMEGA really say the Judge would act before the Regs are out BECAUSE otherwise she would have too much to read through ? wtf kind of public statement would that be ? It is patently absurd, worse than the late NROG's legslative analysis or most of what Gaboonviper posts.

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The whole reporting of this has been retarded. First they said that the application had been filed directly with the Third Circuit (which I am pretty sure is a legal impossibility). Then they are quoted as saying that the judge might act on the motion before the return date, before the government has submitted its opposition, and before she's heard argument (assuming argument is even held), something that happens in, oh, about 0% of cases.

It's stuff like this that makes these type of applications, and indeed the fight against the UIGEA, come across as utter nonsense. They'd be a whole lot better off if they'd either shut their mouths or say stuff like "we've filed our papers, we think we've made good arguments, it's now in the hands of our lawyers and the courts". And if I was the attorney and I would tell my client that all statements to any type of press outlet, no matter how loosely we define "press", must be run through me first.