January 4, 2017 This week, regulations governing fantasy sports contests in the State of Maryland went into effect. The regulations, implemented pursuant to a 2012 law exempting fantasy sports from the State’s gambling prohibition, vest the Office of the Comptroller with authority to enforce various consumer protection rules aimed at establishing basic rules to ensure […]
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December 13, 2016 A fantasy sports bill has been introduced in Ohio pursuant to which the State’s gaming laws would be amended to provide the Ohio Casino Control Commission (the “Commission”) with the authority to regulate fantasy sports contests. With so few days remaining in the current legislative session, the introduction of the bill seems
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December 6, 2016 A bill introduced to the Illinois House of Representatives, designed to criminalize fantasy sports, has been assigned to the Executive Committee for further review and analysis. The move advances the bill one step closer to passage. Fantasy sports lawyers, and the operators that they represent, continue to grapple with the challenges presented
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October 27, 2016 This week, the office of the New York Attorney General (the “AG”) announced that it had reached a settlement with both FanDuel and DraftKings, resolving the State’s deceptive marketing practices lawsuit. We had previously blogged about how New York lawmakers mooted the portion of the AG’s lawsuit concerning charges of illegal gambling
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October 20, 2016 The Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently fined New York-based Forcerank LLC (“Forcerank”) $50,000 in connection with charges that Forcerank’s fantasy stock market mobile app illegally offers complex derivative products to investors. How did the fantasy stock market app allegedly violate federal securities law?
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October 12, 2016 Last week, a group of New York citizens filed a lawsuit against Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Gaming Commission in an effort to halt implementation of New York’s new fantasy sports law. Wielding as a cudgel the arguments made by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a prior lawsuit against
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September 19, 2016 The Michigan State House of Representatives recently introduced legislation proposing to exempt certain fantasy sports contests from the prohibition against gambling contained in the State’s penal code. The proposal is the second attempt to legalize fantasy sports contests within the State, after an earlier bill was introduced into the State Senate but
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August 31, 2016 Last week, the plaintiff collegiate athletes in a putative class action lawsuit pending in the Southern District Court of Indiana filed their opposition to FanDuel and DraftKings’ respective motions to dismiss. The opposition seeks to keep alive the claims that the fantasy sports companies violated their rights of publicity under Indiana law
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