Casino City Appeal Lodged

Published: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 Online-Casinos.com

Casino City Appeal Lodged

You can't keep a good man down online, and you'll be reading a lot about feisty Casino City publisher Michael Corfman over the next few months, we'll wager.

Corfman has lodged an appeal in the Fifth US Circuit Court against a decision earlier this year which went against his challenge to the US Department of Justice to cease its widely perceived as intimidatory tactics against advertising venues carrying online gaming advertising.

The DoJ's actions in sending "informative" letters and subpoenas opining Internet gambling as probably illegal in terms of the Wire Act to search engines and media has resulted in massive advertising losses. Corfman challenged these actions on grounds of the Freedom of Speech provisions of the US Constitution but because he had not been sent one of the "Informative" letters the ruling went against him.

He's back with all guns blazing in an appeal which the federal government wilol have to address within 30 days.

A positive outcome will have major implications for the industry.