Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
The legal victory in September by the state of Kentucky to control gambling within its borders through the seizure of 141 domain names belonging to online gambling companies has been appealed. The appeal has now been joined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU, and the Center for Democracy and Technology, who use an amicus brief to argue that the initial seizure ruling was flawed on several levels. Ars Technica outlines the arguments in the brief, these being the registrars for the doma
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Three civil libertarian groups, unassociated with the domain industry or the gambling industry, joined together to file an Amicus (friend of the court) brief with the Kentucky Appeals Court, (pdf file) on the Domain seizure action. The Brief was filed by the ACLU of Kentucky, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Center for Democracy and Technology. The brief makes several key points. First the seizure order is over broad, and would infringe on the first amendment right of the domain
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