We recently interviewed Gregory Brower, former Legislative Counsel for the Justice Department, about the Wire Act lawsuit and pending appeal by the DOJ. You can hear what he had to say about the case and speculation about what could happen next.

Mr Brower was also as a state senator in Nevada, a United States Attorney in the state of Nevada, and is a former member of the Nevada Assembly. He is is now in private practice at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.

Reasons for Optimism with the Wire Act Lawsuit

Those in the online gaming industry have reason to be optimistic all will be fine for them when the DOJ’s legal fight over the Wire Act is finished. That cautiously positive message rose above the disenchantment expressed with the Justice Department during panel discussions this week at the American Gaming Association annual Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas.

Last year, for the first time, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel adopted a posture that the Wire Act made illegal interstate routing of information related to any type of gambling and not just sports betting. The Act was originally enacted in 1961 to address organized crime revolving around sports betting before the age of the internet. Now, suddenly everyone from lotteries to iGaming companies faced legal danger from interstate compacts and computer networks that crossed borders.

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