{"id":237113,"date":"2022-10-12T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=237113"},"modified":"2022-10-13T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T22:55:07","slug":"parx-casino-sues-pennsylvania-skill-gaming-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/parx-casino-sues-pennsylvania-skill-gaming-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Parx Casino Sues Pennsylvania Skill Gaming Company, Alleges Machines Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Parx Casino is the richest gaming property in Pennsylvania. But the Bensalem venue believes it would be generating more revenue if it weren&#8217;t for unregulated skill gaming machines operating throughout the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_237137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237137\" data-style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/307283701_516364200490327_1681290251173123882_n.jpg\" alt=\"Parx Casino Pennsylvania Skill gambling\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" \/><figcaption  id=\"caption-attachment-237137\"class=\"text-description\">&#8220;Pennsylvania Skill&#8221; machines are found in various businesses across the Commonwealth. The richest casino in Pennsylvania, Parx Casino, contends in a lawsuit that the devices are illegal. (Image: Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">Georgia-based Pace-O-Matic (POM) and its Pennsylvania subsidiary, Miele Amusements, are the leading manufacturer and distributor of the controversial gaming terminals. &#8220;Pennsylvania Skill,&#8221; as the games are branded, look and operate closely to traditional slot machines found inside Pennsylvania&#8217;s legal casinos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Skill games have the same spinning reels and ringing sounds as slots, but they differ in that the player must identify a winning payline. A slot machine automatically pays out on a winning spin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Parx Casino, owned and operated by Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment, filed the lawsuit against POM in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. The casino alleges that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/virginia-skill-gaming-company-has-filed-almost-150-lawsuits\/\">POM&#8217;s products<\/a> are nothing more than cleverly designed slot machines, and the games are operating outside the state&#8217;s existing regulatory framework on gambling.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><b>Lanham Act Allegations<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pennsylvania courts continue to mull a lawsuit regarding the legality of POM&#8217;s machines. POM argues that since there&#8217;s an element of skill involved, the terminals don&#8217;t constitute gambling apparatuses and therefore fall outside the scope of the state&#8217;s Gaming Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Parx attorneys contend that the machines are banned under state law because they are unregulated gambling devices. The casino also alleges unfair competition, tortious interference with a legal, regulated industry, and negligence per se.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Parx cited the Lanham Act &#8212; also known as the federal Trademark Act of 1946 &#8212; in its lawsuit. The Lanham Act is a federal statute of US law that bars activities that infringe on trademarks, trademark dilution, and false advertising.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>The Pennsylvania Crimes Code makes it illegal to intentionally or knowingly make, assemble, set up, maintain, sell, lend, or lease &#8216;any slot machine&#8217; except as permitted under the Gaming Act, the State Lottery Law, Bingo Law, or the Local Option Small Games of Chance Act,&#8221; <\/strong>attorneys representing Parx Casino alleged in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The lawsuit contends that the Gaming Act defines slot machines as traditional and &#8220;skill slot machines,&#8221; and &#8220;hybrid slot machines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The skill component of POM machines, Parx&#8217;s legal team maintains, doesn&#8217;t supersede the terminals&#8217; element of chance in determining the outcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Pennsylvania Skill-branded slot machines are illegal gambling devices, and they are represented to be games of skill when they are not,&#8221; the lawsuit continued. &#8220;Consideration is required to play, the machines employ random number generators, there is a reward for successful play, and the results of play are not predominantly determined by skill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The lawsuit concluded by alleging that skill games are &#8220;essentially the same&#8221; as licensed slot machines.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><b>Costly Decision<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">POM maintains its terminals have been a lifeline for struggling small businesses amid the pandemic. Revenue from the games is split between the host establishment and the manufacturer and distributor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>They&#8217;re not illegal,&#8221; <\/strong>said Michael Barley, chief public affairs officer for POM, last month.<strong> &#8220;Every dollar that&#8217;s made, over 92% of it is staying in the commonwealth, staying in small business.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The machines are not taxed nor regulated to assure players of fair play or a minimum payout, as are casino slots. The Pennsylvania Lottery believes skill games have hurt lottery sales by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/pennsylvania-lottery-claims-skill-gaming-led-650m-revenue-loss\/\">more than $650 million<\/a> since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Parx&#8217;s lawsuit is seeking financial damages from POM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;As a direct and proximate result of POM&#8217;s wrongful conduct, Parx Casino has suffered and will continue to suffer a great risk of financial losses, permanent irreparable harm, and other continuing harm,&#8221; the lawsuit ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parx Casino is the richest gaming property in Pennsylvania. But the Bensalem venue believes it would be generating more revenue if it weren&#8217;t for unregulated skill gaming machines operating throughout the Commonwealth. Georgia-based Pace-O-Matic (POM) and its Pennsylvania subsidiary, Miele Amusements, are the leading manufacturer and distributor of the controversial gaming terminals. &#8220;Pennsylvania Skill,&#8221; as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":237137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,69293],"tags":[83218,82211,82474],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Parx Casino Sues Pennsylvania Skill Gaming Company<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Parx Casino is the richest casino in Pennsylvania, but believes it would be generating more revenue if it weren&#039;t for skill gaming machines.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/parx-casino-sues-pennsylvania-skill-gaming-company\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parx Casino Sues Pennsylvania Skill Gaming Company\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Parx Casino is the richest casino in Pennsylvania, but believes it would be generating more revenue if it weren&#039;t for skill gaming machines.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/parx-casino-sues-pennsylvania-skill-gaming-company\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-12T18:02:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-13T22:55:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/307283701_516364200490327_1681290251173123882_n-e1665701631414.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Devin O&#039;Connor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@CasinoorgDevinO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Devin O&#039;Connor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/parx-casino-sues-pennsylvania-skill-gaming-company\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/parx-casino-sues-pennsylvania-skill-gaming-company\/\",\"name\":\"Parx Casino Sues Pennsylvania Skill Gaming Company\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/parx-casino-sues-pennsylvania-skill-gaming-company\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/parx-casino-sues-pennsylvania-skill-gaming-company\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/307283701_516364200490327_1681290251173123882_n-e1665701631414.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-12T18:02:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-13T22:55:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/02b4fee8814a4003903b0021bffb4ebf\"},\"description\":\"Parx Casino is the richest casino in Pennsylvania, but believes it would be generating more revenue if it weren't for skill gaming machines.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/parx-casino-sues-pennsylvania-skill-gaming-company\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/parx-casino-sues-pennsylvania-skill-gaming-company\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/parx-casino-sues-pennsylvania-skill-gaming-company\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/307283701_516364200490327_1681290251173123882_n-e1665701631414.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/307283701_516364200490327_1681290251173123882_n-e1665701631414.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":768,\"caption\":\"\\\"Pennsylvania Skill\\\" machines are found in various businesses across the commonwealth. 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