Professor I. Nelson Rose of Whittier Law School, the respected online gambling law expert, this week suggested that the online gaming industry should not be too optimistic with regard to the news regarding the Californian legislature's consideration of a bill to initiate a study of intra-state legalization of Internet poker. 

What the professor suggested is that even though the bill being proposed by Representative Levine may have a good chance of being passed, it is still at this time, only an initiative to begin a study of the implications of the state of California legalizing online poker.

Professor Rose explained that Representative Levine believes that his bill has a good chance of being passed, since all that it does is call for a study of the issue. At the same time Professor Rose is not that optimistic at this time, as regards the actual legalization of online gambling since it seems that the federal, as well as the state, Departments of Justice are saying that doing this would violate federal law, and that this applies even if it is entirely intra-state.

Rose points out that his position is that this is wrong both as regards the substantive law as well as the intent of federal law as it pertains to gambling, which is only to help the states uphold their public policies.

The professor also added that the greatest obstacle might in fact be getting the political players who are involved to agree on how legalization might work.

Professor Rose explains that the motivation seems to be lacking, and that this is mainly because the revenue projections have been rather small. He also notes that he has been working with numbers made available by a major operator that showed that with advertising and the possibility of receiving payment their credit cards, California-only online poker could be much greater.

Posted on: May 10, 2008

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