Green, Rick,

Federal Lawsuit Targets Electronic Gambling Devices. Rick Green. - Hartford Courant, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 34, Business, 1522-3191; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Federal Lawsuit Targets Electronic Gambling Devices, May 17, 2004; pp. n.p..

"Hard-luck plaintiffs have pursued a class action lawsuit charging that casinos, slots manufacturers and cruise ship operators--virtually the entire gambling industry--have fleeced machine patrons with a knockout cocktail of computer technology, crafty marketing and outright deception." (HARTFORD COURANT) This article discusses lawsuits aimed at the gambling industry for engaging in "a course of fraudulent and misleading acts and omissions to induce people to play their video poker and electronic slot machines based on a false belief concerning how those machines actually operate."

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Class actions (Civil procedure)
Electronic gambling machines
Fraud
Gambling
Gambling industry
Probabilities
Slot machines

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