RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina law enforcement officers have started probing whether sweepstakes industry businessmen funneled money to politicians to get them to legalize their business, a State Bureau of Investigation spokesman said Tuesday. The development comes four months after ...

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State v. Spruill (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-1081, 9 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) Appealed from Edgecombe County Superior Court (Walter Godwin Jr., J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though defendants’ internet games providers changed their software to comply with G.S. § 14-306.4 ...

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A majority of members on the North Carolina Board of Elections say they support opening a campaign finance investigation into 2012 political donations from the operators of sweepstakes games.

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A company providing software for sweepstakes gaming parlors says it's leaving North Carolina because it's getting too hard to do business in the state.

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Hest Technologies, Inc. v. State ex rel. Perdue Which bans the operation of electronic machines that conduct sweepstakes through the use of an “entertaining display,” regulates conduct and only incidentally affects speech.

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