iMEGA Files Appeal Against US Government in US Online Gambling Law ... - Gambling911.

iMEGA.org, an independent online trade organization seeking to ensure freedom over the Internet, announced on Tuesday it had filed a Notice of Appeal in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals (Philadelphia) regarding its challenge against "policy enforcement" of the UIGEA.

Earlier this month, a Circuit Court judge ruled that iMEGA did have "legal standing" to pursue the matter further.

At the time, iMEGA offered this "open letter to the online gambling industry":

On March 6, 2008, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey handed down its opinion in the lawsuit brought by our Association – iMEGA v. Gonzales, et al. The ruling by the Honorable Mary L. Cooper contains a great deal of good and yet some bad aspects for iMEGA – and for the rights, the people and the medium we are defending.

First and foremost, the Court established, with crystal clarity, the standing (and associational standing) of iMEGA to challenge this law in court. This is no small thing. Judge Cooper herself spent 15 pages of her 29-page decision establishing iMEGA’s standing, in the process knocking down the US government’s primary challenge to our suit. iMEGA flat-out beat the government on that point.


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