Justice Department repeats request to throw out UIGEA restraining order
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Months after missing the deadline to draft UIGEA regulations, the US Department of Justice managed to make the deadline to respond to iMEGA’s request for a restraining order against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
The DOJ, on behalf of itself, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Federal Reserve, has repeated its insistence that iMEGA has no grounds for a restraining order. The brief filed September 21 asked that the case be thrown out because the UIGEA has yet to be enforced (because the government didn’t draft regulations to do so in time), and any harm done to iMEGA members is so far only theoretical. The DOJ says also that iMEGA has no right to dispute the UIGEA on First Amendment territory because the UIGEA is not restricting freedom of speech based on content.
US District Judge Mary Cooper will hear arguments in the case on Wednesday, September 26.
