Sentences with phrase «as gambling under»

If the practice were to be considered as gambling under the ESRB, the AO rating that games with loot boxes would receive will lead to said games not being able to be sold in major retail outlets.

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The new law is the nation's first formal approval of the industry after its come under scrutiny across many states for allowing what regulators see as illegal online gambling.

«Daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling, and misleading New York consumers... Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.

Caesars Entertainment was taken private in one of the largest and ill - timed leveraged buyouts in history, and the company has struggled under the weight of the debt used to finance the move along with increased competition as more jurisdictions legalize gambling.

His departure as chairman marks the end of an era in Canadian business during which his empire included the auto parts company, MI Developments Inc., which owns the real estate under many of Magna's plants, and Magna Entertainment Corp., a racetrack and gambling company that went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2009.

The gambling cafe scene in the south suburbs added another player recently with the opening of new gambling parlors under the ownership of Blackhawk Restaurant Group, which operates its cafes as Penny's or Betty's Bistro.

Finally, under new Racing, Pari - mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law § 1330 - a, any current gaming licensee who spends more than $ 1,000 supporting or opposing the November referendum on casino gambling must file their expenditure reports with the Gaming Commission as well as with the state Board of Elections.

As a result, the state law meant poker still fell under the definition of a gambling business.

The film, directed by Richard Kwietniowski and inspired by a true story, avoids the artificial highs and lows of many gambling movies and shows Hoffman burrowing straight ahead, his eyes rarely lifted from the action, as if under a hypnotic spell.

We may, but are not required to, decline a transaction on your Account for any of the following reasons: (A) because of operational considerations, (B) because your Account is in default, (C) if we suspect fraudulent or unlawful activity, (D) we reasonably believe a transaction may be challenged as illegal under state or federal law (such as casino gambling on the Internet), or (E) in our discretion, for any other reason.

2) Entrants accept that Cats Protection are the Promotor of the Weekly lottery which is regulated by the Gambling Commission under legislation laid down in the Gambling Act 2005 as amended.

The debate over whether loot boxes should be thought of as gambling tools is not going to go away, with the UK Gambling Commission ruling that boxes do not come under its control because the rewards on offer were usable only in tgambling tools is not going to go away, with the UK Gambling Commission ruling that boxes do not come under its control because the rewards on offer were usable only in tGambling Commission ruling that boxes do not come under its control because the rewards on offer were usable only in the game.

Furthermore, the current rules allow carbon offsets to cover reductions, allowing emissions to be essentially swept under the carpet as the EU gambles in unpredictable carbon markets.

According to German law, a product must fall under the «game of chance» category in order to classify as gambling.

A game of chance to win a prize in the UK is subject to regulation (and with it compliance, fees and taxes) under the 2005 Gambling Act, where this definition includes skilled games with a small element of chance unless so insignificant as to not matter.

This regime has been challenged by the gambling companies in Gibraltar as being contrary to the freedom to provide services enshrined under Article 56 TFEU.

As described in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, back in January, a Pennsylvania county court dismissed charges against two individuals who ran a poker game out of a garage, finding that because the outcome of poker has more to do with skill than chance, it was not illegal under the state's gambling laws.

Writing for a unanimous court, Judge Dolores Sloviter wrote: «gambling, even in the home, simply does not involve any individual interests of the same constitutional magnitude» as sexual privacy laws, and therefore «is not protected by any right to privacy under the Constitution.»

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The Court of Appeal held that, although an agreement pursuant to which R bet as A's agent using A's money was void under the Gambling Laws, if R misappropriated A's money for his own purposes, A was entitled to recover it under the ordinary principles of restitution.

For example, I used it in a case where someone fraudulently sold ditch company shares worth several hundred thousand dollars (in Colorado, water is gold) that he didn't own (a transaction that could not be unwound because the buyer was a bona fide purchaser for value and the seller had apparent authority as a trustee of a trust owning the shares even though he didn't have the actual authority to sell them under the trust) and then spent the money he received before he was discovered (if I recall correctly, for gambling debts).

In response to the open - ended question about gambling - related coping strategies, the responses were coded under four major themes reflecting strategies the participants used to cope with family member's problem gambling: (1) financial control including taking over the finances; (2) supportive engagement including talking, rationalising, giving advice; (3) help - seeking including support for the gambler to attend counselling; and (4) avoidance and denial such as keeping away from the gambler and doing their own thing.