The administration of Governor Steve Beshear will be filing a petitioning to the court this week. The petition stated that the state does not have authority to seize nearly 141 online domain names offering gambling games like poker and other related games. This lack of power prevents the state from being able to block those who are trying to operate from within the borders of Kentucky through online poker sites.J. Michael Brown of Justice and Public Safety remarked in a statement on Wednesday January 21, 2009 that “The Commonwealth will not cease in its action to save the citizens of Kentucky from illegal Internet gambling operations, and appeal a petition for the recent Court of Appeals ruling to the Supreme Court of the state.”
The proof is said to demonstrate a number of illegal and unregulated activities of gambling which are happening in Kentucky. The petition papers also appeal that millions of dollars are lost as a consequence of undocumented illegal activities in Kentucky thereby leading to loss of revenues for the state. This fact was not disputed in the Tuesday’s ruling.
Brown also remarked that court ruling of the appellate was 2-1, and also that the Franklin circuit judge had decided to side with the state.
A number of officials with the gambling and poker sites have expressed a hopes in that the state will let go the lawsuit and concentrate on the regulation and taxation of the Internet games and the revenues which are made from it.
The residents of Kentucky must be annoyed about the fact that the Commonwealth is wasting its time and dollars in the ages of global economic meltdown in spending for scarce resources in this unrealistic case, per remarks an executive director of a poker related media site.
It is hopefully expected that the appeal would be rejected.
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