Group Sues Minnesota Regulators Over Gambling Ban > The ISP's aren't going to do anything

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On October 13, 2006, President George W. Bush signed into law the UIGEA. Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn) attached the legislation to an unrelated port-security bill just moments before it was voted on. The UIGEA’s unexpected enactment created industry hysteria. Stock prices of publicly-traded e-casinos plummeted, wiping out over approximately seven billion dollars of market value. Some of the most prominent e-casinos pulled out of the U.S. market entirely. Since then, the mass media has churned out wide-ranging commentary on the Act; from complete dismissals of its viability to comparisons with Prohibition.

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Beginning in the mid-90s, several bills were introduced in Congress to crack down on Internet gambling. One such bill would have amended the Wire Act to expressly ban all forms of Internet gambling. Other bills focused on preventing credit card companies and other financial institutions from transferring money in connection with gambling deemed unlawful under existing federal or state law. The bills were defeated largely because of disputes over whether interactive interstate horseracing and interactive state lotteries--huge lobbying interests--would be exempt.

¶ The Department of Justice ("DOJ") also took a hard stance against online gambling, relying primarily on a questionable theory that the Wire Act, as originally enacted in 1961, criminalized all forms of Internet gambling. In 2003, the DOJ issued letters to the National Association of Broadcasters and other media groups advising that providing advertising for e-casinos may be considered aiding or abetting illegal gambling operations.42 Months later, dozens of major media companies were issued subpoenas

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