The Kansas Supreme Court said today it will issue its ruling Friday on whether the state's expanded gambling law is constitutional. The law enacted last year allows four casinos that are owned and operated by the Kansas Lottery. A Shawnee County District Court judge upheld the statute in February. At issue, the Associated Press reported, is whether what the Legislature's definition of "state-owned and operated" casinos are that.

Springfield - Lawmakers can force casinos to fork over some of the cash gamblers bet on roulette, craps and cards to the declining Illinois horse racing industry, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday. For the past two years, the state’s four richest casinos, including the two in Joliet, have had to send 3 percent of their revenue to a special state fund to help horse tracks and racers.

Finally justice has prevailed. A foreign investor’s legal right has been established by Nepal’s honorable Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of Nepal has through an order has capped the ongoing almost a year long feud in between the real Proprietor of the casinos in Nepal, Mr. Richard Doyel Tuttle and his servant, Rakesh Vadhba. The Supreme Court has said in a pronouncement that the current managing committee headed by Rakesh Wadhba was illegal and thus has ordered the former committee wherein Mr. Tuttle was the Chairman to operate as usual.

European online gaming companies may soon be able to legally advertise their services in Sweden, following last week’s Supreme Court order that the Court of Appeal must hear the cases against two of the country daily newspapers, Aftonbladet and Expressen. The Supreme Court said that several rulings in the European Court of Justice have brought Sweden’s Lottery Law into doubt...

Last week, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) unanimously declared unconstitutional the decree that rules the bingo operation by Río de Janeiro lottery (Loterj). The decree also defined the profile of lottery agents, their registration, the criteria for the tender process and eventual penalties for the infringement of the rules. The action was proposed in August 2003, by the former General Attorney of the nation, Claudio Fonteles, who challenged the state decree considering that it would be using the competence which belongs exclusively of the Union to legislate the draw system.

The state’s highest court upheld the decision of state regulators to allow groups led by a Connecticut Indian tribe and by a Chicago billionaire developer to build slot-machine casinos on Philadelphia’s riverfront. The Supreme Court rejected the challenge by a rival applicant that lost out on a license, and sped Philadelphia toward becoming the nation’s largest city with downtown casinos.