In June of that year, the Biden administration allowed the deadline for an appeal to lapse. That tacitly confirmed that it considered the 2018 opinion to be incorrect.<\/p>\n
IGT wanted a declaration to that effect. But if it thought the Biden administration was going to play ball, it was wrong. In its motion to dismiss the case, the DOJ\u00a0acknowledged that\u00a0the US government could not successfully prosecute IGT in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n
Regarding IGT\u2019s non-sports betting operations elsewhere in the US, it said:<\/p>\n
IGT does not allege that it has been prosecuted or threatened with prosecution in this time, nor does IGT point to a single prosecution or threatened against any party [sic] engaged in like conduct. Under these circumstances, the perceived threat that IGT may be prosecuted in some other jurisdiction for its non-sports gambling activities is merely speculative and certainly not imminent or substantial.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Moreover, the plaintiff \u201cimplicitly seeks to extend the benefit of favorable First Circuit precedent [in New Hampshire] to other jurisdictions where it engages in non-sports gambling \u2013 jurisdictions where courts have not yet decided whether the Wire Act reaches any non-sports gambling,\u201d the DOJ said.<\/p>\n
In short, IGT is unlikely to be prosecuted by the federal government anytime soon. But the DOJ is unwilling to interfere with the right of any other state that wants to abide by the 2018 interpretation if it chooses to do so.<\/p>\n
After all, the right of states to decide their own gambling laws was what this was all about in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The US Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Rhode Island-based lottery provider IGT. It seeks to obliterate the Trump administration\u2019s interpretation of the federal Wire Act. IGT sued the DOJ in November last year in the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The company asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":203246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13699],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
DOJ Files Motion to Dismiss IGT Lawsuit Against 2018 Wire Act Reversal<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n