Some gambling ads on Google, Yahoo! and other major websites are illegal in California, according to a new lawsuit.
The 60-page filing, presented in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that the companies sell rights to web advertisements based on searches for terms such as "illegal gambling," "internet gambling" and "California gambling."
The online businesses also use geotracking software to target particular regions, including California, for illegal gambling ads, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit demands that the companies stop accepting the advertisements and give California "millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains," said attorney Ira Rothken, one of several attorneys from firms involved in the class-action lawsuit.
The suit is the latest to involve internet gambling, which has become a multibillion-dollar-a-year business and is usually focused on online poker or blackjack. Wireless interests, including mobile phone service providers, also offer gambling opportunities to their subscribers.
Yahoo! and Google, in turn, rake in a majority of the millions of dollars gambling firms spend on advertising, according to the lawsuit. Representatives from the two companies did not return a call seeking comment.
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Does a law actually exist in California making online gambling illegal?
The judge should toss all these morons into the tank for wasting the courts time! What effect if any did those ads have on the plantifs? Of course - NONE - they are just looking for a get rich quick scheme - pretty damn sad! These are the same people that sit around all day brainstorming about who and what they can sue for next - hmmm Burger King makes made me fat - Im suing. I drank a case of beer and got drunk - I'm suing. |
