Online Gambling Law Challenged

September 26, 2007 By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- A gambling industry group argued in federal court Wednesday that a new federal law against transmitting online bets outside the United States violates people's right to gamble in the privacy of their own homes.

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