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Indiana Senate Bill To Ban Lottery Couriers Sits As Desk Of Gov. Mike Braun A Senate Bill has passed through the Indiana House that will ban lottery couriers from operating in the Hoosier State. However, that prohibition may not be permanent. Rather, the intent of the bill appears to be to establish that couriers aren’t legal until the state decides on a plan for online lottery sales, which ma...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) hosted a cross-country hearing concerning the losses of a German Lottoland player. Jurors will now withdraw to further evaluate case C-440, which task will most likely prove challenging as the circumstances around it include Germany’s gambling landscape prior to the adoption of its fourth gambling law iteration (GlüStV 2021). MGA-licensed Lottoland was sued...

“We view this as a legal matter and a consumer protection matter and there is also a fiscal interest for the state,” said Maryland Lottery and Gaming director John Martin." State joins Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, and Illinois in seeking to ban sports prediction markets Maryland has become the fifth state to send cease-and-desist letters to Kalshi, Robinhood and Crypto.com as the Maryland Lot...

April 3, 2025
"These companies are engaging in shady practices, and the people of our city are literally paying the price," Baltimore Mayor Brandon Sco...
March 24, 2025
The Dutch Lottery is taking the gambling company Lalabet to court, demanding that the Costa Rican-based company cease its activities in t...
March 27, 2025
he recent Supreme Court judgment in Attorney- General Of Lagos State & Ors V. Attorney-General Of The Federation & ORS (SC/01/200...
March 21, 2025
The Treasury Ministry’s Prize and Betting Secretariat (SPA-MF) published, this Friday (21), an ordinance that establishes clear guideline...
February 13, 2025
The Brazilian gambling regulator, the Secretariat of Prizes and Bets (SPA), is welcoming feedback from industry stakeholders less than tw...
March 21, 2025
The news represents a blow for the country’s gambling regulator GGL, which has seen its attempts at IP blocking offshore gambling sites f...
March 14, 2025
Former acting chief operating officer and a Durban-based client liaison officer were summarily dismissed last year Sanele Dlamini, for...
March 12, 2025
On February 25, 2025, Judge Jennifer L. Rochon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted in par...
March 12, 2025
Gambling advertising ban, introduced in Italy in 2018 under the Dignity Decree, shall now be reviewed by the Italian Government that migh...
March 8, 2025
A new bill introduced in Brazil’s Congress seeks to criminalize the advertisement of illegal gambling, imposing prison sentences of up to...
March 8, 2025
SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) — Apple, Google and Meta asked a federal judge Friday to dismiss a trio of class actions accusing them of illegally...
March 2, 2025
Branschföreningen för Onlinespel (BOS), the Sweden Online Gambling Trade Association, has called on the Ministry of Finance to amend loop...
March 2, 2025
A report identified nearly 8,000 cases of identity theft in online gambling in 2024. Spain.- The Spanish gambling regulator, the DGOJ,...
February 12, 2025
February 12, 2025 DETROIT, Feb. 12, 2025 — The Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB) has taken swift action against nine online casinos, ...
February 13, 2025
The decision by the Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries (MBLL) to file an injunction on behalf of the Canadian Lottery Coalition (CLC) agains...
February 7, 2025
Regulator makes ‘unpredecented’ blunder in legal battle over UK lottery https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/07/gambling-commiss...
February 7, 2025
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has fired a last-minute shot across the bow at offshore operator Bovada and daily fantasy sports co...
February 5, 2025
Coljuegos, Colombia's gambling regulator, has blocked 10,000 websites and social media profiles offering illegal betting as part of its l...
February 6, 2025
Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries (MBLL) has filed a legal challenge against offshore gambling operator Bodog, seeking to prevent the compa...
January 31, 2025
By decision of 16 January 2025, the Enterprise Court of Antwerp (the “Court”) refers several prejudicial questions to the Court of Justic...
January 31, 2025
Washington state residents are being bombarded with ads on social media, hyping the state’s tribal casinos’ online operations. There’s o...
January 20, 2025
Sportsbet, Flutter Entertainment’s flagship Australian brand, is facing a class-action lawsuit from gamblers who lost money while using i...
January 21, 2025
 The Florida Gaming Control Commission recently testified that existing statutory classifications and penalties for illegal gaming offens...
January 22, 2025
Pennsylvania Skill games, slot-like gaming terminals found in small businesses and social clubs throughout the commonwealth, should be re...
January 17, 2025
Quebec polls this morning show a healthy lead (33%) for the Parti Quebecois party over the governing Coalition Avenir Quebec party (22%),...
January 8, 2025
Supreme Federal Court (STF) minister André Mendonça has rejected the Rio de Janeiro State Lottery’s (Loterj) appeal against the ban on st...
January 8, 2025
Poland has proposed the EU form a working group to combat unregulated gambling as part of a bid to recover lost tax revenue. The Central...