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Online Gambling Boom Comes With Tangle of Lawsuits

The booming world of online gambling has dealt lawyers a messy hand of legal challenges, spawning a host of lawsuits that target an industry poised to make nearly $10 billion this year ' up 40% from last year. <br/>In California, a group of lawyers has filed a class action suit against a dozen search engines, including Yahoo and Google, for allegedly running ads that lead players to online gaming sites. The suit seeks to hold the search engines responsible for gambling losses.

29 minute read April 28, 2005 at 02:21 PM
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Tresa Baldas
Online Gambling Boom Comes With Tangle of Lawsuits

The booming world of online gambling has dealt lawyers a messy hand of legal challenges, spawning a host of lawsuits that target an industry poised to make nearly $10 billion this year ' up 40% from last year.

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