I. Nelson Rose on the Kentucky case

See here.

For those who don't know, Rose is a leading authority on gaming law. He is a professor at Whittier College of Law in California, authored one of the standard texts in the field, has a regular column in Poker Player newspaper, and was instrumental in getting California's courts to legalize all forms of poker back in the 1980s. I have been looking forward to reading his thoughts on the Kentucky case; this is the first I've seen from him on the matter.

While we're at it, see this update on the legal maneuvers. I'm highly confident that the ruling will eventually get overturned on appeal. However, getting an appellate court to intervene on an emergency basis is a lot harder, so it won't be too surprising if this initial round fails. Appellate courts tend to prefer to wait until the trial court is all done with the case before reviewing it, and they typically have a high threshold for accepting that there will be permanent damage done if they don't step in quickly.