Kentucky Case Again on Hold

Published: Sunday, January 25, 2009 Online-Casinos.com

Online gamblers, poker players, bingo players, have got to wait for the next battle in the courts.

In less than 48 hours after a Kentucky Appellate Court ruled against Beshear, saying that an Internet Domain Name is not a "gambling device." The whole mess in now again before the appeals court.

The Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, released a statement to the fact that they are going to take this matter to the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Seizing a domain name is no different than the state seizing a casino billboard, Mr.Fleischaker, a Louisville lawyer said during the first trail.Two of the three judges expressed skepticism about the government's case.Judge Jeff Taylor asked how the government could seize the domain names when the Web site operators have not been prosecuted.

J. Michael Brown, secretary of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, was quoted as saying "The evidence demonstrated that illegal and unregulated activity is occurring in Kentucky, and that millions of dollars are being lost as a result of that activity, a fact that wasn't disputed in Tuesday's ruling."

This potential ruling will affect the Internet as a whole. If the Kentucky Supreme Court overturns this decision, what's to say that other states won't follow suit? . Will we be censoring the Internet like other Countries such as North Korea, Iran and China has already done.