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Gambling in the news - and here is what LawReader has to offer on the legal side of the track

By Michael Stevens

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Gambling, gambing, and more gambling.  The mainline media has gambling rambling; the legislature is gambling rambling as they are sampling some bills, but here are some interesting links from Retired Judge Stan Billingsley at www.Lawreader.

By Stan on Uncategorized

  Rep. Jon Fischer of Campbell County has filed a lawsuit asking the Campbell Circuit Court to issue a declaratory judgment that the Governor?s proposed legislation for allowing video gambling terminals in racetracks violates the Kentucky Constitution.   This type of lawsuit is forbidden in the law.  The law requires an actual controversy to exist before the court [...]



By Stan on Uncategorized

  By LawReader Senior Editor Stan Billingsley ? Feb. 7, 2008   Gov. Beshear made his support for a constitutional referendum to allow casino gambling a mainstay of his successful campaign for Governor in 2007.  That issue as advanced by Gov. Beshear is based on the assumption that a constitutional amendment is necessary to permit the legislature to [...]



By Stan on Uncategorized

  Kentucky?s Highest Court ruled in 1931 in the case of Commonwealth v. Kentucky Jockey Club, Inc., 238 Ky 739, 38 SW2d 987 (1931) that Section 226 of the Kentucky Constitution, which is often cited as outlawing casinos and slots in Kentucky. The Court said this section only outlawed ?lotteries of the type familiar? in 1891 [...]



Full post as published by Kentucky Law Blog on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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