Google and Yahoo walks free from gambling lawsuit
Judge Richard Kramer from the San Francisco Supreme court declared Yahoo – Google and a number of other sites *immune from liability* when dismissing a lawsuit filed against these sites for displaying advertisements for online gambling. In 2004 – two California residents sued a conglomeration of websites for displaying gaming ads, after one of the plaintiffs allegedly lost over $100,000 gambling online. This lawsuit targeted a dozen of high-profile websites including Jupitermedia, CNET Networks, Alta Vista and Overture along with Yahoo! and Google. (Last year Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft were forced to pay more than $30 million to the United States Justice Department for displaying online gambling ads. Although online gambling is not illegal in the United States …U.S. Gambling). 
As the days move forward and the Obama and Democratic congress gets closer to their start date on Jan. 20th of 2009, online gambling seems to be gaining momentum with court wins and ill-conceived legislation having eyes rolled at it. The next big court case for the industry is on December 12th when IMEGA gets to defend the industry in the Kentucky online gambling domain seizure case initiated by governor Steve Beshear.