DOJ's Wire Act Opinion Is A Game Changer

By Tim Lowry ( January 23, 2019, 2:41 PM EST) -- Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel published its long-awaited and updated guidance respecting its interpretation of the statutory proscriptions found within the Wire Act.[1] The central issue is whether the phrase "sporting event or contest" in Section 1084 qualifies all four of the act's prohibitions, rather than just one of the four prohibitions. The DOJ's analysis concludes, in sum, that the qualifier "sporting event or contest" can only be read to modify the phrase it immediately follows, and the qualifier cannot "sweep[] both backwards and forwards to reach all four of section 1084(a)'s prohibitions."...

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