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John Roberts Honored at IMGL Spring Conference

On May 9th at the IMGL Spring Conference in Montreal, John Roberts was honored with the IMGL President's Award by President Kelly Duncan. The President's Award recognizes a member of the IMGL who has selflessly contributed significant time and energy to getting this organization and advancing our mission. John Roberts, Deputy Commissioner with the San Manuel Gaming Commission in California co-chaired the IMGL Spring Conference in 2012 and 2011 and developed an Indian Gaming track of programming which significantly expanded our outreach.

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Keith C. Miller

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Keith C. Miller is the Ellis and Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor of Law at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Professor Miller earned his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the UMKC Law Review. After practicing law in Kansas City, Missouri, Professor Miller received his L.L.M degree at the University of Michigan Law School. At Drake University, Professor Miller teaches and writes in the areas of gaming law, torts, and products liability, and his scholarship includes articles and treatises on torts, products liability, and gaming law topics. In 2011, he co-authored a casebook, The Law of Gambling and Regulated Gaming, with Anthony Cabot. The book, published by Carolina Academic Press, is used both in law schools and other departments of universities. Professor Miller has acted as Drake University’s Faculty Athletics Representative to the NCAA, and he has served as the Faculty Advisor to the Drake Law Review for twenty years. Professor Miller also teaches at the University of Nantes (France) where he has been a Professeur Invitée since 1992. He has also lectured at the University of Foggia (Italy), and was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin.

Despite the swift reaction of the gaming committees in the Florida legislature, Jarvis said he thinks it is still unlikely an Internet cafe bill will pass both chambers before the session ends on May 3. Instead, lawmakers probably will wait until the two newly-formed committees complete their gambling study report later this year. The report is expected to serve as the template for gambling legislation in Florida next year.  “As for what the report will say about Internet cafes, I think there was already a general feeling among even pro-gaming legislators that the cafes should be banned, and this latest scandal will certainly bolster that view,” Jarvis said. “As such, I do think that the legislature will eventually ban the cafes, or at the very least, impose such tough regulations that the cafes will effectively be run out of the state,” he said. An example of this extinction-by-regulation method can be seen in Ohio where the state’s House of Representatives voted 66-29 on Wednesday to forbid Internet cafes from awarding prizes exceeding $10. “This is likely to make the business model of Internet cafes unsustainable,” said Dan Tierney, a spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who would prefer an outright ban. Sometimes called “convenience casinos,” Internet cafes allow customers to purchase Internet access that allow them to play video poker and other online games that resemble slot machines. Last September, the American Gaming Association called for the prohibition of “this unintended sector of the industry.” The prohibition of Internet cafes is “a very viable possibility,” according to Joe Kelly, a gambling industry consultant and business law professor at State College of New York in Buffalo. “In the past year, court decisions in North Carolina, Texas and Pennsylvania have stopped Internet cafes in those states,” Kelly said. “While Internet cafes remain prominent in Ohio, California and Florida, two of those states are trying to ban them,” he said.