RALEIGH (AP) — Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they have reached an agreement with six large video sweepstakes companies that requires them to stop providing software to hundreds of Internet cafes in North Carolina. The office of U.S. Attorney Thomas ...

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Back in 1915, the North Carolina Supreme Court noted that “no sooner is a lottery defined, and the definition applied to a given state of facts, than ingenuity is at work to evolve some scheme of evasion which is within ...

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SMITHFIELD — Johnston County’s district attorney is warning Internet sweepstakes operators they must close by Nov. 1 or face the possibility of criminal charges. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that District Attorney Susan Doyle sent letters to more ...

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A judge in Davidson County is listening to a request to dismiss a lawsuit against Gov. Pat McCrory and another North Carolina official by an Internet sweepstakes business.

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A judge in Davidson County has issued an order blocking police from taking any products from sweepstakes businesses that use a specific company's software.

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A darkened video sweepstakes parlor near the North Carolina State University campus told players Thursday much the same thing similar businesses in hundreds of storefronts statewide believe: they'll be back.

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IMT, Inc. v. City of Lumberton Several Lumberton businesses sell internet usage time to customers, and their customers also receive free sweepstakes entries with their internet-usage time purchases. The businesses have failed to show that the Town of Lumberton acted improperly when it dramatically increased the cost of a privilege license for these businesses (and not for other types of businesses).

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