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Wisconsin sued for blocking Santa Ana, Calif.-based Internet gambling firm

Thursday, May 8, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.

World Wide Web Casinos Inc. filed the lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court here, contending that Doyle's office told the firm in March that setting up an Internet gambling business that would serve overseas gamblers was illegal under state law.

Lawyers for the Santa Ana, Calif., company claim in the lawsuit, however, that Wisconsin's gambling laws do not apply to its proposed Internet operation.

The lawsuit included a letter from the director of the state Justice Department's gaming enforcement bureau that said Internet gambling out of a Wisconsin location would be illegal even if the bettor were an overseas customer.

"Wisconsin law applies to both the person placing and the person receiving the bet," Gary H. Hamblin told World Wide Web Casinos in the March 25 letter.

World Wide Web Casinos is asking the federal court to declare that the regulation of Internet gaming and Wisconsin's gambling laws have been pre-empted by the U.S. Constitution's supremacy clause, which says all laws made pursuant to the Constitution are superior to any conflicting state law.

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