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Gambling Industry Takes on Addiction Prevention

Gambling Industry Takes on Addiction Prevention

July 28, 2025

Gambling Industry Takes on Addiction Prevention

By: Jordan Briggs

Last week, the National Council on Problem Gambling hosted advocates, regulators, counselors, and other industry participants in Columbus, Ohio for the National Conference on Gambling Addiction & Responsible Gambling 2025. With such a broad range of attendees, the conference offered many unique sessions geared towards different industry groups, including wellness sessions and recovery meetings alongside the overviews of ongoing, broad research and the operator-specific talks on emerging customer service tools. I was fortunate enough to attend the conference, where I heard moving first-hand accounts and summaries of large-scale research across the country, both of which can be used to inform best practice recommendations in the gaming industry. Responsible Gaming is Not Only for Problem Gamblers Speakers and panelists often first…

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FAIR Treatment of Lost Bets

July 25, 2025

FAIR Treatment of Lost Bets

By: Avner Kronisch

Introduction On July 7, 2025, Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) introduced H.R. 4304, the Fair Accounting for Income Realized from Betting Earnings Taxation Act, commonly known as the FAIR Bet Act.[1] Two days later, Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV),  Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the Senate companion bill, S. 2230, titled Facilitating Useful Loss Limitations to Help Our Unique…

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Reviving the Statute of Anne: Should Lawyers Mine Centuries-Old Statutes for Profit?

June 16, 2025

Reviving the Statute of Anne: Should Lawyers Mine Centuries-Old Statutes for Profit?

By: Robert Ward

For most of American history, state governments strictly prohibited nearly every form of gambling. In the last 100 years, however, many states have loosened gambling prohibitions in favor of a legal, regulated gambling industry. Still, remnants of strict, anti-gambling attitudes remain on the books in many states in the form of “loss recovery acts.” These centuries-old statutes allow a losing gambler to sue the winner…

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States Rush to Protect Consumers From Cyber Threats as Gaming Legislation Moves Across All States

August 25, 2022

States Rush to Protect Consumers From Cyber Threats as Gaming Legislation Moves Across All States

By: Jake Gray

In the four years since the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on sports betting, more than 36 states and the District of Columbia have launched legal sports betting markets, with more than half of legalized states offering online and mobile options. [1] In most markets that offer online and mobile sports betting, the offerings are responsible for more than 70% of the total…

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Next Steps Toward Legalized Online and Retail Sports Betting in Massachusetts

August 1, 2022

Next Steps Toward Legalized Online and Retail Sports Betting in Massachusetts

By: Sara Dalsheim

The road to legalized sports betting in Massachusetts has been slow and lengthy, the lawmakers have spent five sessions on the question of sports betting legalization.  Today, the Massachusetts state House and Senate reached an agreement on a bill that would legalize online and retail sports betting on professional and some collegiate contests (H 5164).  Sports betting on Massachusetts colleges and universities will only be…

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European Union Agrees On Cryptocurrency Regulation, Excludes NFTs (For Now)

July 28, 2022

European Union Agrees On Cryptocurrency Regulation, Excludes NFTs (For Now)

By: Jacob Grubman

European Union policymakers have taken the next step toward enacting a scheme for regulating cryptocurrency and other blockchain-based assets, as the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament provisionally agreed to approve new rules governing Markets in Crypto-Assets (“MiCA”).  The new rules would address a range of risks related to cryptocurrencies and related assets—with notable exceptions in decentralized finance (“DeFi”) and non-fungible tokens…

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Ifrah Law At NFT.NYC: Insights and Discussions on NFT Gaming

July 19, 2022

Ifrah Law At NFT.NYC: Insights and Discussions on NFT Gaming

By: Jake Gray

In the third year following its inaugural event in 2019, NFT.NYC held its NFT.NYC conference from June 20th to June 23rd, 2022. And Ifrah Law was in attendance, alongside more than 15,000 other attendees in addition to the conference’s 1,500 speakers.  Featuring educational programming and informational panels about various NFT-related topics across seven different venues surrounding Times Square, NFT.NYC hosted one and a half days…

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Is My Crypto Safe if My Exchange Declares Bankruptcy?

July 14, 2022

Is My Crypto Safe if My Exchange Declares Bankruptcy?

By: George Calhoun

Celsius Network LLC, one of the largest cryptocurrency lenders in the industry, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, July 13th. The filing comes just a month after the company halted customer withdrawals, swaps, and transfers “to stabilize liquidity” on account of extreme market conditions caused by a dive in cryptocurrency prices. As such, many crypto-investors find themselves concerned about the safety of their digital assets…

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Gambling Industry Takes on Addiction Prevention

Gambling Industry Takes on Addiction Prevention
By: Jordan Briggs

FAIR Treatment of Lost Bets

FAIR Treatment of Lost Bets
By: Avner Kronisch

Reviving the Statute of Anne: Should Lawyers Mine Centuries-Old Statutes for Profit?

Reviving the Statute of Anne: Should Lawyers Mine Centuries-Old Statutes for Profit?
By: Robert Ward

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