Accordingly, we conclude that the proposed lotteries are not within the prohibition of the Wire Act.
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But if you still want to try this high-wire act, first understand some fundamentals.
He describes Alex Salmond's leadership as "a high-wire act" involving big predictions, most of which have come off.
If unions think that the government is reneging on its promises, it will make Labour's high-wire act harder still.
One federal law that seems to prohibit online, pay-to-enter NCAA Tournament pools is the Interstate Wire Act of 1961.
As the story winds down, Ascher allows the high-wire act of the absurd and the sacred to descend to earth.
In response, American authorities began invoking statutes such as the Wire Act to prevent offshore gambling providers from accessing the American market.
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In other words, Ewanick fell to earth to a great degree because he failed to perform well enough in the high-wire act that he created.
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The small print on Sportingbet's 2001 float paperwork reportedly stated that that the directors had been advised that some of the firm's activities violated the federal Wire Act.
Yes, he says, he saw the documentary about Philippe Petit's high-wire act between the World Trade Center towers, then reminds me to pay attention to what I'm doing.
Thus, NCAA Tournament pools that collect entry fees and pay prize money via online websites such as LeagueSafe would technically seem to run afoul to the Wire Act.
In late 2011, the Justice Department flip-flopped on one of its most important online gambling positions, claiming the Wire Act only applied to sports betting and not online poker.
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But for Mr Aso, Mr Kingston says, the incident has swiftly turned into a high-wire act in which he must reassure Japan's neighbours without destroying his own conservative base.
Legal opinion is divided over the extent to which the 1961 Wire Act, a statute designed to stop gambling over the phone, can be applied to betting over the internet.
The Department of Justice years ago took the position that the federal Wire Act of 1961 prohibited all sorts of online gambling even though the law itself seemed to only apply to sports betting.
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It only released its new legal opinion on the Wire Act on the Friday afternoon before the Christmas weekend, announcing that it had essentially flip-flopped on one of its most important and long-held positions on Internet gambling.
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PokerStars, the biggest online poker company, has for years insisted that legal opinions it has received from several U.S. law firms state that the Isle of Man company is not breaking any U.S. law, including the wire act of 1961 that Dikshit pleaded guilty to violating.
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Federal prosecutorial efforts against online poker have in recent years focused on the role of payment processors, making it seem to some that the government does not have a high degree of confidence in its position that facilitating for-money online poker violates U.S. law, specifically the wire act.
Integrated into the already distinctive nature of the Krug style--all base wines fermented in small oak casks, the finished wines aging for at least six years before release--it creates champagne as high-wire-act, a balanced tension between a dry, taut crispness and a mellow, juicy, full-flavored fruitiness.
Their three-dimensional nature would, for example, permit the microscopic equivalent of wire coils to be etched on to them, meaning that they could act as radio antennae.
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