The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has earned its “best in class” reputation among U.S. regulators ever since it exceeded industry expectations by managing to meet its self-imposed six-month deadline of launching online casino gaming in the state in November 2013.
But on Thursday, the vaunted agency saw its wings clipped for the second time in seven days.
A New Jersey appeals court concluded that contrary to a lower court ruling, DGE did not have “exclusive jurisdiction over all gaming-related advertising.”
Because of that finding, the appeals court reversed a summary judgment that had dismissed a violation of the state’s Consumer Fraud Act made by a Vermont man who had visited Atlantic City in 2015 to attend a “Grand Poker Series” tournament at Golden Nugget.