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Lawsuit against Boss Media Still Poses a Lot of Questions
Boss Media, a respected online casino software specialist, is one step closer to paying out for a lawsuit after their second motion for dismissal was denied by U.S. Eastern District Federal Judge Arthur D. Spatt. Boss Media, which was brought into a lawsuit by Susanne Uebler - a player of oriental Casino, is contending they have no responsibilities to pay any promised sums by the online casino licensee in this particular case.
A resident of Long Island, New York, Uebler won a $1 million trivia contest through Boss Media licensee, Oriental Casino little over six years ago. The operator of Oriental Casino, CyberCroupier - Sweden based gaming company - made arrangements to pay Uebler in monthly installments of $3,333 over the course of twenty-five years. However, only having received approximately two years worth of payment, Uebler was cut short when CyberCroupier went out of business in 2003.
After Uebler learned that she would not receive any more payments, and that her online account with the casino was closed, she proceeded to file a lawsuit against the company. After making an amendment to the lawsuit, which directly targeted Boss Media, lawyers for the online casino software provider motioned for a dismissal, which was denied in the latter.
It looks as if Uebler's case stands a chance against Boss Media, now after the second dismissal. Boss Media argues they have no responsibility in the matter since the money that Uebler won was not via the playing of online casino games, but rather, was earned through a trivia contest solely operated by CyberCroupier. And while that argument is definitely a legitimate one, the reason for a denial of dismissal - according to Judge Spatt - is that CyberCroupier made arrangements to make the promised payments to Uebler through Webdollar, which happens to a subsidiary company of Boss Media.
Since the relationship between CyberCroupier and Boss Media seems to be more than that of just an online casino licensee and software provider, the use of Webdollar sheds some doubt on the participation of Boss Media in the matter, according to Spatt. Apparently this does not necessarily prove that Boss Media had any part in the trivia promotion, it leaves a shadow of a doubt as to what degree - if any - the subsidiary company, Webdollar, had in the contest.
The lawyer of Boss Media still continue to defend their actions, as the eternal question of who ultimately is responsible for the actions of online gaming sites continues to remain unanswered. Until there is online casino regulation in the U.S. - where Uebler resides - this question will always remain open to chance.