Citation[]
U.S. Department of Justice, Whether Proposals by Illinois and New York to Use the Internet and Out-of-state Transaction Processors to Sell Lottery Tickets to In-state Adults Violate the Wire Act (Sept. 20, 2011) (full-text).
Overview[]
This opinion provides that the interstate transmissions of wire communications that do not relate to a "sporting event or contest" fall outside the reach of the Wire Act.