The federal judge in the New Hampshire case against the Department of Justice has ruled that the Wire Act only applies to sports betting. In doing so, he set aside the Justice Department opinion that the act applies to online gambling and poker, which some feared could put states in danger of losing their online lotteries and regulated Internet betting. In 2011 the DOJ concluded that online gambling within states that was not sports betting  did not break the law. However, last November they changed their opinion on the matter and chose to interpret the act as applying to any…