Kentucky Will Not Amend Complaint in Online Gambling Case

The Kentucky Supreme Court has confirmed that there will be no amendment in a case involving 141 online gambling domain names.

Judge Thomas Wingate had refused the initial complaint that would include several high profile professional poker players as part of the updated complaint, all of whom were tied into Full Tilt Poker.

Now the Supreme Court has affirmed it will not permit such an amendment and the matter appears to be concluding.

The Kentucky supreme court last week issued a ruling that it will not lift the freeze by registrars of 141 Internet gambling domain names unless an owner of the names comes forward.

Attorneys for iMEGA filed a motion with the Kentucky Court of Appeals to stay an attempt by the Commonwealth to seize the rights to 141 Internet domain names.

The Supreme Court asked that iMEGA and IGC to file affidavits, asserting that one or more of their members were the owners of an affected domain name, so the Court could then make a ruling on the merits, which many experts believe favor iMEGA and its members.

iMEGA's attorneys filed two affidavits to satisfy the Supreme Court's request.  The first affidavit was on the behalf of Yatahay Limited, the company that owns the rights to the domain name "TruePoker.com". Yatahay Limited declared their membership in iMEGA, making it the first company to come forward and identify itself as an affected party.

The second affidavit was on the behalf of Joe Brennan Jr., iMEGA's chairman, confirming TruePoker.com's domain rights holder as a member of the trade association.