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1.  Gambling and the Law®: Not Your Grandmother's Bingo
  Author: Rose, I. Nelson
  Source: BASIS Online
  Description:
  One of the biggest fights in the often strange world of legal gaming is -- What is bingo? This has been fought in court for more than a decade. One case almost made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. But then-Chief Justice Rehnquist refused to hear the appeal, because he did not want to become the butt of jokes on late-night talk shows. But bingo is no laughing matter. At least as many people play bingo as play poker. And bingo halls make money. Leading industry analyst Eugene Martin Christiansen estimates the nation's commercial, charity and tribal bingo games have gross revenues of more than $3.5 billion a year.

 
2.  Gambling and the Law®: Foreign Operators Don’t Have To Pay U.S. Wagering Taxes
  Author: Rose, I. Nelson
  Source: BASIS Online
  Description:
  A federal magistrate has just ruled that foreign internet gambling companies are not required to pay U.S. excise taxes on wagers, if the companies have been set up correctly. The decision is by no means final. But if upheld, it will eventually save internet operators billions of dollars, for bets taken from Americans. Not that any of those companies are actually sending checks to the IRS. But their executives who made the mistake, say, of changing planes in Dallas, have been arrested and charged with tax evasion. A conviction means years in prison, and millions owed to the IRS.

 
3.  Svenska Spel - Responsible Gambling Award. Svenska Spel recognized for responsible gaming
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  Source: OnlineCasinos.com
  Published: Nov 02, 2008
  Description:
  World Lottery Association names Swedish gambling monopoly as tops in responsible gaming practice. The Swedish state-owned gambling monopoly Svenska Spel was recognised for its commitment to responsible gambling at the World Lottery Association’s conference in Rhodes last week. Svenska Spel’s acting CEO Anders Hägg said he was delighted to receive recognition for the heavy investment the firm has made in the field, whilst Sweden's Finance Minister Anders Borg said he was proud of the company.

4.  Svenska Spel - Responsible Gambling Award. Svenska Spel recognized for responsible gaming
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  Source: OnlineCasinos.com
  Published: Nov 02, 2008
  Description:
  World Lottery Association names Swedish gambling monopoly as tops in responsible gaming practice. The Swedish state-owned gambling monopoly Svenska Spel was recognised for its commitment to responsible gambling at the World Lottery Association’s conference in Rhodes last week. Svenska Spel’s acting CEO Anders Hägg said he was delighted to receive recognition for the heavy investment the firm has made in the field, whilst Sweden's Finance Minister Anders Borg said he was proud of the company.

5.  Increasing the Odds - Volume 4: Gambling and the Public Health, Part 2
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  Source: National Center for Responsible Gaming
  Description:
  This volume of Increasing the Odds: A Series Dedicated to Understanding Gambling Disorders features scientific research that could serve as the foundation for public health strategies and responsible gaming programs designed to reduce gambling-related harms. These studies demonstrate that the young field of gambling studies has begun to provide the building blocks for practical applications to the problem.

 
6.  Gambling and the Law®: Prosecutors Claim Internet Gaming Ads Violate Local Laws
  Author: Rose, I. Nelson
  Source: BASIS Online
  Description:
  Here’s a quote that should scare anyone involved with any form of legal gaming. The federal Department of Justice (“DOJ”) got Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to agree to pay $31.5 million in fines to settle claims that they had promoted illegal gambling by running ads on the Internet. The DOJ announced that the fines were “for corporate conduct the government found in violation of the Federal Wire Wager Act, federal wagering excise tax laws, and various states' statutes and municipal laws prohibiting gambling.” The DOJ has been waging a war of intimidation against Internet gambling for almost 10 years. It has been effective, although slightly deceptive.

 
7.  Cut Me Off: Self-Limit Programs for Internet Gambling
  Author: Division on Addictions, Cambridge Health Alliance
  Source: The Wager
  Description:
  Self-limit programs (i.e., programs offered by casinos or Internet gambling sites that impose wagering or deposit limits) are intended to reduce gambling-related harms. This week the WAGER examines the Internet sports gambling behavior of people using the self-limit program of a prominent Internet gambling site (Nelson, LaPlante, Peller, Schumann, LaBrie, & Shaffer, 2008).

 
8.  Gambling and the Law®: Compacts, Elections and Bureaucrats – Oh My!
  Author: Rose, I. Nelson
  Source: BASIS Online
  Description:
  On February 5, 2008, Californians voted on whether four tribes could triple the number of slot machines in their casinos, from 8,000 to 25,000. The tribes won. If they hadn’t, there would have been years of ugly lawsuits. Opponents, primarily unions and competing tribal casinos and racetracks, believe the legal mess was created by underhanded attempts to guarantee that these four tribes would get their slots, even if the voters disapproved. I believe the problems were the result of federal and state bureaucrats following what they thought was the letter of the law, without using common sense.

 
9.  Review of Research, Education and Treatment: Final report and recommendations
  Author: Gambling Commission [UK]
  Source: Gambling Commission [UK]
  Description:
  This report sets out the conclusions and recommendations of the Gambling Commission’s review of the current voluntary arrangements for the industry’s funding of gambling research, public education and treatment. The review, carried out at the Government’s request, gathered evidence and views from a wide range of stakeholders. The terms of reference for the review were to: estimate the funding needed for each of research, education and treatment; identify the most appropriate organisational arrangements (including governance and management) for: distributing such funding; the commissioning of research, education and treatment; consider the merits of different methods of raising such funding (including consideration of the statutory levy provided for in the Gambling Act 2005).

 
10.  2007 Adult Gambling Prevalence Study
  Author: Focal Research Consultants
  Source: Nova Scotia Health Promotion and Protection
  Description:
  The 2007 Nova Scotia Adult Gambling Prevalence Study, commissioned by Nova Scotia Health Promotion and Protection (NSHPP), marks the fourth such study to be conducted in the province and the second using the Canadian Problem Gambling Index. This report describes the prevalence of gambling and problem gambling among adults 19 years of age and older who are permanent residents of Nova Scotia, living in private households (n=2,500). It also describes the changes that occurred between 2003 and 2007. In addition to the adult survey, supplementary surveys were administered to a select sub-sample of young adults 19-34 years (n=240) and youth (n=85) living in these randomly selected households.

 
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