All states have different laws regarding online gambling, but few states go after it with the vengeance that Kentucky does. The state of Kentucky has a rather nefarious reputation in the online gambling world. If you like to gamble online, Kentucky would most probably come last in the list of places you would like to retire to. The state of Kentucky seems to have declared itself the official bounty hunter of online casinos. With its latest foray into taking legal action, the state has cemented its position.
What Is The lawsuit
Now this particular lawsuit, the newest of the lot, has a history. Although it is the Kentucky state’s most recent salvo at online casinos, its story starts much before. It is actually a part of a series of lawsuits that Kentucky started some years back. Now all you have to do is sit back and listen to the story as it unfolds to its latest most chapters.
In a bid to rid its state of all sorts of online gambling, the state of Kentucky began to seize and capture the domain names of the online casino’s websites that used to run its operations in Kentucky. Now when one says ‘operates in Kentucky’, what it really means is that Kentucky doggedly chased every casino that allowed people from Kentucky or accepted them into their sites. If you do not find this even the least bit kooky, the next bit of news will guarantee at least one smirk.
The latest online casino to come under the target of Kentucky is the Microgaming banner. Full Tilt Poker and Party Gaming have already had lawsuits filed against them and now Microgaming has been forced to join the party. Although, Microgaming left the state of Kentucky in 2008, i.e. the year the absurd ban and suing of online casinos ‘operating’ in Kentucky started, a new type of lawsuit filed by Kentucky ropes Microgaming right back in.
It is this newest lawsuit that has succeeded in raising people’s eyebrows. The state of Kentucky in its latest lawsuit is looking to recover all the funds that Microgaming earned when it was operating in Kentucky from September 29th, 2005 to October 23, 2008 before they were unceremoniously chased out. The statute on which the state filed this case is even more bizarre. The state statute that they are using allows the state to take legal proceedings on behalf of any of those citizens who are unable to take any legal action on their own. Now in a sane world, this excellent statute is used to protect the rights of the old, sickly, handicapped, poor and other people who generally face such exploitation. However, in the state of Kentucky this statute encompasses the gamblers who gambled at an online casino. The point of absurdity is that people who bet on horse races in Kentucky are a 100% able. Maybe this will set a precedent for sore losers to get their money back. The only thing that any of us should look out for is people who lost heavily on these online casinos demanding refunds of their bets. You will not be able to find anything stranger than that associated with this case!