On May 27, Christopher Boone published “States Escalate Crackdown on Sweepstakes Casinos and Supporting Companies” in Westlaw Today. The following is an excerpt:
State legislatures are moving quickly to address sweepstakes casinos and related social gaming models, and several measures reach beyond consumer-facing operators. Recent enactments and pending bills increasingly address the broader commercial ecosystem that supports these platforms, including financial institutions, payment processors, geolocation providers, and media affiliates. New York has already adopted this type of support-entity prohibition, and similar language appears in pending legislation in Virginia and Minnesota. For companies that operate, market, process payments for, or provide services to sweepstakes casino platforms, the state-law compliance analysis is becoming more complex.
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