federal law prohibits it in states where it's prohibited?

Still nothing on PACER as of 4:58pm ET.

Based on what cause of action, exactly?

Federal law prohibits bank fraud and money laundering in all states.

I'm not sure what you mean by "it"? Federal law prohibits bank fraud, money laundering, etc. UIGEA is federal law, too. Most, if not all of the stuff they were charged with were federal law vioaltions. Otherwise (if any were state), the federal court could obtain supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims arising out of a common nucleus of operative fact, as was present here.

meaning what? can a deadline just go ignored?

No, this is not a viable possibility. They don't have ot file a motion to dismiss or motion to strike, but they do need to file a responsive pleading. If it's not a MTD, it would generally be an Answer.

ECF filings are not instantaneously available on PACER, however. Once a pleading is filed via ECF, it has to be reviewed for format by the court clerk's office (or whoever in a given district reviews all ECF filings), to ensure that the filing conforms to ECF rules. Once that happens, it makes it way over to PACER, and in my experience, that can take a couple hours.

PACER is the main database for those not in the case to get access to filings, but the filings themselves are accomplished via ECF, not PACER.

keep up the good work gentlemen

I don't think it can here. This is the deadline for motions to dismiss, motions to strike, and most importantly, answers not yet filed.

Answers are the most important part here. An answer is a pleading by the defendant that responds to the plaintiffs complaint. If a responsive pleading is required and the allegations set forth in the complaint are not denied, then any allegations not denied are admitted.

I'm a little confused on the timing though. If you file a motion to dismiss, you don't need to file an answer until that is resolved. If you don't file a motion to dismiss, I'm not sure if the answer is immediately due. That's what it looks like here, though.

Lol, realized this and deleted that. This is great review for the bar exam.

Question, though, would there be a 5 pm EST deadline for the e-filing?

still nothing? I thought I would hear the big announcement today.

Not sure, that depends on the Local Rules for SDNY. Some federal districts have 5pm or 6pm filing deadlines. Some judges within a given district have their own time deadlines. In the absence of a local rule stating otherwise, I believe the deadline is midnight. I've never actively worked an SDNY case, but I suppose I can look up their local rules easily enough.

Okay, I just got this from the SDNY ELECTRONIC CASE FILING RULES & INSTRUCTIONS:

So they've got another six hours or so, to file something electronically, if they have not already done so.

Has Howard turned up for the main yet?!

Hopefully not just more about Bitar.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanva...is-going-home/

"Bitar will remain in the New York area for the next 48 hours until he discloses to federal prosecutors all of the assets he holds both in the U.S. and abroad."

Mean anything?

Seriously, where Ray sleeps tonight is not exactly what we are going for here

No. They've always been trying to freeze all of his accounts. This just makes it easier. The court is making him do it probably on the premise that he can't become a lifelong fugitive if he doesn't have millions readily available.

You would think the monitoring device that they are making him wear would do this.

Not really, though if he doesn't disclose every one of his assets now, and the feds find them later, he's gonna be ****ed with his bond revoked.

Otherwise, the only things of significance here are a) Kaplan did recuse himself, and b) Bitar can go to Glendora, CA, but will be doing so with new jewelry festooned on his ankle.

Taken a few weeks off poker and I now see things are at least moving forward albeit slightly, it might not look like it for you guys who check this thread every day though, I can def see that and I dont blame you. Hopefully there will be some resolution to this soon, hang in there guys.

Ahhh alright thanks guys, just thought maybe it would have had something to do with him giving those assets over to the DOJ so they could pass them on to PS for us.... well, another dream crushed

The reports I have seen, though not conclusive, have said that the DOJ would not "pass assets" to Pokerstars. Rather, they may get a discount on the settlement price based on certain seized funds, but DOJ is keeping the seized funds.

Effectively, it's the same thing, though.

I mean it's cool and everything reading news about Bitar. But news that doesn't shed light on WTF is going to happen to my money is so MEH right now.