German online gambling case dismissed
22 Dec 2006
GERMANY – As reported by Bloomberg: "Germany's highest court dismissed a complaint by Internet sports betting company Sportwetten Gera GmbH against a ban imposed by the state of Saxony-Anhalt two years ago.
``'Sportwetten Gera wanted the immediate ban to be abolished,' Rainer Nitzschke, director of the German association of private sports betting companies, said by telephone today.
"…Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rejected the complaint because the company didn't suffer a `major disadvantage' as a result of the immediate ban, according to a statement published on the court's Web site today…"