LandofOz wrote:
If you owned an online casino that was generating 100s of millions of dollars in annual profit, wouldn’t you challenge this legislation in court, especially since it has more holes in it than swiss cheese? If it was your only chance of getting this legislation thrown out, wouldn’t you take it? Why haven’t any of the big online casinos done so? Do you think that anyone will mount a court challenge?
You can’t just walk into court and say “I challenge this law”. Someone has to actually be charged with breaking the law before any challenge can be mounted.
The legislation was well-crafted in that it stayed away from attempting to criminalize the act of gambling online itself. The hope of the proponents of the bill was that the implied threat would be persuasion enough to force many online gaming companies to sever ties with the US long before anyone was actually charged with breaking the law. They were right. It worked brilliantly.