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Originally Posted by golfnutt
All I can is regardless of an antiquated law, this feels very wrong. An injustice tossed back in our face. It hurts my faith in the United States of America. That is there is zero literally recourse to someone stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars on camera from dozens of people.
I am in shock. Black mark on the US.
Well, my understanding of the opinion is that there is no law allowing people to sue in civil court to settle gambling disputes. I don't know how state courts work, but the federal courts only have the jurisdiction granted them by the constitution and/or congress.
So it's not like these disputes are excluded due to antiquated values dating to the prelegal gambling days.
It is more like society, today's society, does not think the court system is an appropriate venue to settle gambling disputes, especially in situations where the amount of the money being disputed is in dispute.
Courts aren't very good venues to settle these sorts of claims, and would likely come to the wrong decision as often as not.
I'm actually glad there's an area where the government says less government is better. There should be more areas with less government.
Your statement that there is zero recourse is wrong. If the action is a crime, and you have evidence, the police will prosecute. Sadly here, there is no evidence of what happened, just a video recording of it happening. Somehow, that's not enough.
Maybe if the police weren't busy beating protestors ....