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New local tax developments affect online travel companies and hotel room resellers

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

Effective September 1, 2009, resellers will become responsible for New York City’s Hotel Occupancy Tax on the net amount paid for any hotel room booked by a "room remarketer."

Federal appeals court rules that county cannot collect occupancy taxes from online travel companies

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 22 2009

On January 14, 2009, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals released Pitt County v. Hotels.com, L.P. et al

EU launches investigation into US Internet gambling trade restrictions

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • April 16 2008

On 10 March 2008, the EU launched an investigation, under the EU’s Trade Barriers Regulation, into whether US restrictions on foreign companies operating Internet services affect EU economic operators in a discriminatory manner

Apparently there is a reason why the same people win poker tournaments over and over...

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 19 2009

Following a trial last week, Judge Larry Duffy of the Municipal Court of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (a suburb of Charleston) held that poker--at least of the Texas Hold 'em variety--is a game of skill, not of chance

The game got rough: online gaming giant Zynga gets court to enjoin competitor

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 11 2009

Zynga Game Network, Inc., which describes itself as “the number one social gaming company with 30 million daily active users,” obtained an ex parte temporary restraining order against its competitor Playdom, Inc. and two former Zynga employees

Fantasy sports leagues participation is not illegal gambling, judge rules

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 3 2007

The many fantasy sports leagues enthusiasts can breathe a deep sigh of relief, as a federal judge in New Jersey has just ruled that their activities do not constitute illegal gambling

Executives arrested for facilitating internet gambling; company stops funds transfers between Americans and internet gambling sites

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 19 2007

Corporate officers and directors and other individuals who knowingly facilitate the transfer of funds between American- based gamblers and Internet gaming sites that the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) considers illegal could face decades in prison

Rule proposed regarding the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 5 2007

On October 1, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the US Treasury (collectively, the Agencies) jointly issued for comment a proposed rule that would implement the relevant provisions of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (the Act

Online gambling and the WTO: the e-commerce aftershock

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 19 2007

The first internet gambling case brought under the WTO in which it found that the US prohibition on cross-border online gambling breached the WTO, has sent ripples through the online industry

Recent decisions highlight additional ADA Title III risks faced by franchisors and franchisees

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 30 2008

In the November 2007 issue of Franchise Alert, we reported on the increase in architectural barrier claims under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), especially against franchisors and franchisees that operate restaurants, hotels and stores

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