{"id":666,"date":"2006-07-26T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T23:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/us-civil-liberties-get-a-setback\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T23:03:07","slug":"us-civil-liberties-get-a-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/us-civil-liberties-get-a-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"US Civil Liberties Get a Setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court Wednesday extended until July 31 a temporary restraining order that prohibits BetOnSports PLC, the British online gambling company, from taking bets from the United States.<br \/>\nA hearing on the new order is scheduled for Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis. The new order, signed by Judge Catherine Perry, extends a July 17 order that was set to expire after 10 days.<br \/>\nThe temporary order is part of a civil case brought by the U.S. government to stop U.S. betting with BetOnSports. In addition, the FBI instructed telephone companies to stop providing phone service to BetOnSports.<br \/>\nThe U.S. government also has filed a criminal case and 22-count indictment accusing BetOnSports of fraudulently taking bets from U.S. residents by phone and the Internet and failing to pay excise taxes.<br \/>\nAs part of the criminal case, BetOnSports&#8217; Chief Executive David Carruthers, was arrested July 16 during a layover at Dallas\/Fort Worth Airport. BetOnSports announced Tuesday it had ended his employment as a result of his &#8220;continued detention by U.S. authorities.&#8221;<br \/>\nTen others were named in the indictment, including Gary Kaplan, the BetOnSports founder, who has not been apprehended.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/fn\/4074162.html\">From the Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court Wednesday extended until July 31 a temporary restraining order that prohibits BetOnSports PLC, the British online gambling company, from taking bets from the United States. A hearing on the new order is scheduled for Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis. The new order, signed by Judge Catherine Perry, extends a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/us-civil-liberties-get-a-setback\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Civil Liberties Get a Setback<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}