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Last updated July 6, 2007 11:04 p.m. PT
Lawyer raises stakes against state's Internet poker ban
Suit claims law really aims to protect gambling industry
By MIKE LEWIS
P-I REPORTER
......... how does a poker aficionado kick off the year's biggest event, the
World Series of Poker? If he's Renton-based attorney Lee Rousso, he
does what comes natural: He goes all in with a lawsuit.
On Friday, as the poker championship began in Las Vegas, Rousso sued
the state of Washington in an effort to overturn its 2006 ban on Internet
poker. Calling it a direct violation of the U.S. Constitution's commerce
clause, Rousso said the first legal challenge to the state law also should
be the last.
"I think my chances are darn good," he said....... |
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