After being forced to pay out more than $30 million to the U.S. Justice Department last year for choosing to display advertisements for online gambling the people at Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are finally getting some redemption. The Department of Justice in the United States says that online gambling is illegal in any form within America, but that is not the case.

The online gambling case brought against the titans of the internet within the state of California was finally dismissed. Originally, this misguided case was brought to the court system by a couple of people who were sore after losing some $100,000 on an online casino site. Since they had found the site through an advertisement displayed on a Google webpage, they chose to blame them as the evil culprits that brought to bear their financial misfortune.

The plaintiffs in this case alleged that in California, online gambling is illegal. The judge, however, ruled that the online website should not be held accountable for choosing to display the content of a third party. Additionally, the case was dismissed because Google and Yahoo have both made the move to stop accepting gambling-related ads on their sites within the United States market over a year ago.

In his ruling, the judge cited the Communications Decency Act. The act was put in place to protect websites from being held responsible for material that is technically supplied by third parties. This is just another positive step for the online gambling industry as the Obama administration’s beginnings come ever closer to being brought into action.

Tags: communications decency act, lawsuits, onjline gambling advertising

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