The Chicago Bears, Rush Street Interactive, Inc. (NYSE: RSI) (“RSI”), a Chicago-based gaming company that operates BetRivers.com, and Rivers Casino have announced a multi-year exclusive partnership. The agreement is the Bears’ first multi-year exclusive deal in the Sportsbook and Casino categories and makes BetRivers the Bears’ Official Sportsbook Partner and Rivers Casino the Bears’ Official…
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Within the past few years, the landscape and public opinion regarding legal gambling has vastly shifted. The Ifrah Law team got ahead of this trend and is well versed in guiding clients in various gaming verticals through the online gaming and sports betting industry’s business, legal requirements, and government relations. Whether helping clients with licensing…
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The Florida House approved a 30-year deal granting the Seminole Indian Tribe exclusive rights to operate sports betting in Florida on May 19, 2021. However, even though the Tribal Gaming Compact received bipartisan support in the legislature, it will likely face legal challenges by gambling opponents on both federal and state levels. With a sweeping…
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The Sports Lawyers Association (SLA) has announced its 2021 conference as a fully virtual event that is scheduled for May 17-21. Here’s a glimpse of what attendees can expect: Pre-conference events, including Meet the Presidents: Past, Present, and Future and the annual Women in the SLA gathering Dynamic speaker lineups featuring some of the top…
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(The following piece was written by Law Professor Ellen M. Zavian, with research assistance from Brandon Martinez Gonzalez, GW Law 1L. Professor Zavian is the Editor in Chief of My Legal Bookie, a periodical produced by Hackney Publications.) A friend of mine, Brandon, is a University of Virginia (UV) law student, and he is talking…
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FansUnite Entertainment Inc. (FansUnite) has announced that it has engaged the services of Ifrah Law PLLC (Ifrah Law), a prominent U.S. gaming law firm, to collaborate with OneComply Inc. (OneComply) in assisting FansUnite with its U.S. licensing strategy. FansUnite’s decision was driven by the interest it has received from U.S. gambling and casino operators, who…
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By Andrew Silver, of Ifrah Law It is hard to believe that as recently as three years ago—prior to the Supreme Court’s May 2018 decision declaring that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) was unconstitutional—Americans seeking to wager on the NCAA basketball tournament had to choose between either traveling to Nevada or wagering…
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Hackney Publications announced today the launch of “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About,” a portal that serves as a resource for those in need of experienced and capable legal counsel in the sports law arena. The firms are listed alphabetically, an ode to the difficulty in actually ranking such…
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The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has confirmed that two Russian tennis players, Sofia Dmitrieva and Alija Merdeeva, have been banned for life from the sport, following investigations into multiple incidents of match fixing. Two of the matches concerned involved both the players as doubles partners. The cases were ruled on by Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer…
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In passing the $900 billion year-end spending bill Monday, which is expected to be signed into law within days, Congress has included a rider to ban race-day doping of Thoroughbreds: the Horseracing Integrity and Safety (HISA) Safety Act. H.R. 1754/S. 4547, concluding an eight-year campaign instituted by activist groups to end medication abuses leading to…
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