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Sports Wagering and Skill Gaming in 2022: Updates from Tennessee and Georgia

Written by Firm | Jun 29, 2022 | News

This spring, Robbins Firm attorney Alexander Denton discussed the current state of regulated gambling and other gaming activities in Tennessee and Georgia with Stephanie Maxwell, general counsel for Tennessee’s sports-wagering regulator. Watch their conversation here: https://vimeo.com/708371009/334fa879e8. That conversation was an extension of an American Bar Association CLE panel Denton moderated, […]

Robbins Firm Defends Veterans of Foreign Wars in Gaming Dispute

Written by Firm | Jul 18, 2018 | Results

The firm successfully represented a Georgia post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (“VFW”) in a dispute involving bona fide coin operated amusement machines (“COAMs”) the VFW offered in its post for its members’ entertainment. When the VFW expressed its desire to change COAM providers, a company purporting to be […]

Georgia ethics panel follows cash raised by funds tied to candidates

Written by James Salzer - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Oct 5, 2017 | News

In the final days leading up to the state’s 2017 legislative session, a political fund with ties to Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle collected about $120,000 in checks, mostly from businesses with a keen interest in what was going on at the Capitol. Most donors to the Georgia Conservatives Fund had […]

Georgia video games spawn charges of payoffs, bribery and betrayal

Written by Dan Klepal - Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Aug 31, 2017 | News

An envelope stuffed with cash. Under-the-table payoffs. Backstabbing treachery over contracts worth millions. Welcome to the underbelly of Georgia’s $675 million-a-year video gaming industry, which produces enough accusations of fraud and corruption to fill a season of “The Sopranos.” Three years ago the Georgia Lottery Corporation began regulating the 22,000 coin-operated […]

Firm Successfully Arbitrates Amusement Machine Contract Dispute

Written by Firm | Apr 14, 2017 | Results

In a consolidated arbitration proceeding under the Georgia Lottery Corporation’s regulatory jurisdiction involving multiple contract breaches by multiple customers of the firm’s client, we secured a final arbitration order that granted our client a six-figure award covering all monetary relief sought for past and future contract damages against each customer, […]

Robbins Firm Defends Amusement Machine Contracts in Lottery Arbitration

Written by Firm | Feb 9, 2017 | Results

After customers of the firm’s client, an owner of bona fide coin operated amusement machines (“COAMs”), attempted to avoid their contractual obligations to our client, we took the dispute to arbitration under the auspices of the Georgia Lottery Corporation’s regulatory jurisdiction. The arbitrator’s final award upheld the validity of our […]