Minnesota Decides: 2
 
As the state of Minnesota made clear warnings to their internet service providers in order for them to ban online casinos from being provided on their line of services. This seemed like a joke to the internet service providers who received the letters from the Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety last month. They were given three weeks to act on their demands and they were also told that if they did not act on their online casino banning then they would be forced to get the Federal Communications Commission involved. The fact that they would threaten the online service providers with action from the FCC is probably the reason why the companies did not take the letters too seriously.

The Federal Communications Commission has no regulatory power over the internet. If you were to visit their website then you could read for yourself in the middle of their home page that they have no control over anything that is posted or done on the internet. The state of Minnesota felt an immediate protest from the politicians in Minnesota that did not feel like the banning of online casinos was a good way of spending state time and money. One online casino, iMEGA, even filed a lawsuit towards the Minnesota Department of public Safety claiming that they have no right or jurisdiction to enforce a banning of online casinos in the state of Minnesota.

The online casino that placed the lawsuit against the state of Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety, iMEGA have plenty to say about the issue. The chairman of iMEGA, Joe Brennan, Jr. said that, "Both sides will take a look at this and act in a reasonable timeline.” This will not be resolved within the next couple of weeks unless one side decides to settle. It looks like we may be in for a long case.