Gaming Loot Boxes - Innovative and Creative Multi-billion Euro Industry but What Are the Legal Risks and Are They Gambling? by Tuomas Pelkonen on 05/12/21 05:12:00 am The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutras community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.
Microtransactions and loot boxes have become more and more popular as a business model in the game industry. The growth has been staggering. While a decade ago, only 4% of desktop games on Steam had a loot box mechanism[1], nowadays a majority of the mobile games and a significant portion of the desktop games have such mechanism. According to research conducted at the University of York last year, a total of 58.0% of the top games on the Google Play store contained loot boxes, 59.0% of the top iPhone games inc
Biden Nominates Two Judges from Silver Spring to Maryland U.S. District Court
The two women President Joe Biden nominated to sit on the Maryland U.S. District Court had their hearings before the U.S. Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary Wednesday morning. Both have ties to Silver Spring.
U.S. Claims Court Judge Lydia Griggsby of Silver Spring currently serves as chair of the Court’s Committee on Legislation and Policy and is a member of the Court’s Management Committee. She is a life-long Maryland resident. If confirmed by the Senate, Judge Griggsby would be the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Maryland.
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BRETT DUNLAP For The Intelligencer
FILE - This photo released July 14, 2020, by the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shows Reta Mays. Mays, a former nursing assistant at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, W.V., is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday, May 11, 2021, for her guilty plea to intentionally killing seven patients with fatal doses of insulin. (West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority via AP)
CLARKSBURG A Harrison County woman who worked as an aide at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg was sentenced Tuesday to seven consecutive life sentences for the murder of veterans at the facility.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
On May 5, 2021, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (“DC Court”) vacated a nationwide eviction moratorium order issued by the Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in
Alabama Association of Realtors, et al. v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al.
1 (the “Decision”). The DC Court found that the CDC exceeded its authority in issuing such moratorium on nationwide evictions of rental properties and that the CDC Order should be set aside. The Decision was immediately appealed by the Justice Department on behalf of the CDC and the ruling has been stayed pending such appeal.