Online Casino Sues
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SANTA ANA — World Wide Web Casinos Inc. is suing Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson and Atty. Gen. James Doyle for refusing to let an online gaming business open in a Milwaukee suburb.
The lawsuit, filed this week in federal court in Milwaukee, contends that Doyle’s office told the firm in March that setting up an Internet gambling business that would serve overseas gamblers was illegal under state law. The company claims, however, that Wisconsin’s gambling laws do not apply to its proposed Internet operation.
World Wide Web Casinos is asking the federal court to declare that the regulation of Internet gaming and Wisconsin’s gambling laws have been preempted by the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause, which says all laws made pursuant to the Constitution are superior to any conflicting state law.
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