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Michelle Cohen on iGaming Marketing: Five Critical Steps When Regulators Call
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May 26, 2026
Michelle Cohen on iGaming Marketing: Five Critical Steps When Regulators Call
By: Ifrah Law
Michelle Cohen guides and defends Ifrah Law’s iGaming clients when government agencies launch enforcement actions alleging unlawful gambling, advertising, and marketing practices. Michelle has decades of experience advising and defending organizations facing these and other claims related to consumer protections and privacy. When faced with cease-and-desist orders and costly litigations, Michelle’s clients count on her credibility, diligence, and deep knowledge of iGaming advertising and consumer protection laws to successfully negotiate with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) officials, state attorneys general, and gaming regulators. Playing Defense on Multiple Fronts: What Federal and State Regulators Are Looking For The FTC has long sought to protect consumers by initiating enforcement actions that challenge companies’ advertising claims. Today, many state attorneys general and gaming regulators…
Conviction by Clickwrap?
May 20, 2026
Conviction by Clickwrap?
By: Robert Ward
“Terms and conditions” are ubiquitous. They appear on baseball tickets,[1] in air conditioning repair agreements,[2] and, of course, on essentially every website we visit on a daily basis. By now, as the Seventh Circuit has put it, reasonable consumers “understand there will be terms and conditions associated with using a website.”[3] When disputes about terms and conditions are at issue in court, they often arise…
Cold Water on Insider Trading Fears: Prediction Markets Miss the 2026 NFL Draft
April 29, 2026
Cold Water on Insider Trading Fears: Prediction Markets Miss the 2026 NFL Draft
By: John Mikuta
From April 23 to April 25, the National Football League (“NFL”) held its annual player selection draft. Over 800,000 fans gathered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to watch Commissioner Roger Goodell announce the picks live, with millions more watching on TV and other digital platforms.[1] But the NFL Draft is not just a spectator event—both traditional sportsbooks and prediction-market platforms allowed customers to risk money predicting which…
Coming to a Theater (Device) Near You: Legalized Sports Betting and Enhanced Player Data Team Up to Save Professional Sports
May 10, 2019
Coming to a Theater (Device) Near You: Legalized Sports Betting and Enhanced Player Data Team Up to Save Professional Sports
By: Nicole Kardell
Professional sports as an industry has a money problem. Game attendance across sports has been on the decline in recent years. Viewership has been on a downward trajectory as has traditional advertising. But two superheroes have appeared on the horizon to help turn things around. And if they team up, Avengers-style, they could benefit all stakeholders in the sports industry: from leagues to teams to…
DOJ High-Wire Act
April 29, 2019
DOJ High-Wire Act
By: James Trusty
Heavyweight parties are slugging it out in a lawsuit in the Granite State, and Ifrah Law is taking a lead role in protecting the interests of America’s rapidly growing online gaming industry. The New Hampshire civil case comes on the heels of the Department of Justice (DOJ) releasing an interpretation of the federal Wire Act that threatens to bring within its scope all gambling activity,…
Update on 1/14/19 OLC Wire Act Opinion – All Eyes on New Hampshire
April 9, 2019
Update on 1/14/19 OLC Wire Act Opinion – All Eyes on New Hampshire
By: Jeff Ifrah
(This post was originally published on 1/15/2019 and updated on 4/8/2019) On Jan. 14, 2019, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion reversing its 2011 position on the Wire Act and sports betting, contradicting not just itself but decisions by at least two District Courts and dicta by the U.S. Supreme Court by maintaining that the Wire Act prohibits all interstate…
How to Ensure Your Media Affiliate Follows Pennsylvania Gaming Law
March 28, 2019
How to Ensure Your Media Affiliate Follows Pennsylvania Gaming Law
By: Steven Eichorn
As discussed in an earlier blog post, New Jersey’s licensing requirements for affiliate marketers impose significantly different structures depending on the revenue model. If the affiliate marketer only plans to work with casinos in a flat fee model (e.g. CPA or other form of pre-determined compensation), then they must register as a vendor. The vendor registration process is quite straightforward, but it does limit the…
An Epic Fail: Complaint Against Fortnite Creator Based On Facts As Stale As Fruitcake
March 5, 2019
An Epic Fail: Complaint Against Fortnite Creator Based On Facts As Stale As Fruitcake
By: Nicole Kardell
Parents can get angry when their kids spend too much time or money on video games. We get it. But going after a gaming company in retaliation is probably not the best response. And doing so without actually understanding the game can result in, well, a giant waste of time, or, in a recent example, an epic fail. Last week, an angry parent filed a…
