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...trying to establish a niche in the then novel world of online gaming. Today PartyPoker boasts that more than a million people have played for money on its site this year, the vast majority of them Americans, who are technically circumventing the law, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ...
What makes the numbers more extraordinary is that online gaming is either banned or legally questionable in several of the countries where it's thriving. In the U.S., where it is hard to avoid televised poker tournaments, the DOJ is unequivocal: it deems Internet gambling illegal, period. And nearly unstoppable. The DOJ admits that it faces hurdles in bringing to heel companies not based in the U.S. But it has pressured credit-card companies to reject gaming-related transactions and "urged" Internet providers and radio stations not to air online-gambling ads. Yahoo! and Viacom's Infinity Broadcasting are just...
Patrick has served as general counsel for Texaco and the Coca-Cola Company. A prominent civil rights lawyer, he served as the nation’s top civil rights enforcer in the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the Clinton administration...
Professor of Law David J. Barron ’89, who specializes in state and local government legal issues, worked with Patrick during his tenure at the DOJ...
...Although DOJ statistics indicate that 92 percent of incidents of abuse in relationships occur against women by men, women in heterosexual relationships are not the only people hurt by domestic violence. It affects people in all kinds of relationships. One-quarter of gay men and lesbians have reported that they have been abused by a partner, roughly at the same rate as heterosexual women...