Commonwealth ex rel. Brown v. Stars Interactive Holdings Ltd.
| Docket Number | 2019-SC-0058-DG,2019-SC-0209-DG |
| Decision Date | 17 December 2020 |
The Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the court of appeals that the term "person" in Kentucky's Loss Recovery Act, Ky. Rev. Stat. Chapter 372, is limited to a natural person, holding that the Commonwealth had standing to bring this suit
The Commonwealth, through the Secretary of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, filed the underlying complaint seeking to recover under statutory treble damages for money lost by its citizens playing real-money poker on an illegal internet website called...
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4 cases
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Cent. Jersey Constr. Equip. Sales v. LBX Co.
...97 (1976)) (same). The ordinary meaning of "any action," then, covers a suit "of whatever kind," not just a breach-of-contract suit. Brown, 617 S.W.3d at 799 (quoting Elliott, 128 S.W.2d at 761). limiting language elsewhere in the Dealer Agreement, that phrase reaches Central's claim to enf......
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Albright v. Royse
... ... dismissal on appeal. Commonwealth v. Albright, No ... 2016-CA-001352-MR, ... below." Commonwealth ex rel. Brown v. Stars ... Interactive Holdings OM) Ltd., 617 S.W.3d 792, 810 ... (Ky. 2020) ... ...
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S.I.A. Ltd. v. Wingate
...the funds gambled on their site could be considered "winnings." Those questions were resolved in Commonwealth ex rel. Brown v. Stars Interactive Holdings (IOM) Ltd. , 617 S.W.3d 792 (Ky. 2020), with our Court holding that the Commonwealth had standing and that the "rake" qualified as winnin......
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Kirby v. Keeneland Ass'n, Inc.
...of Kentucky's statutes and are derived from the days of our Virginia heritage and parentage. See Commonwealth ex rel. Brown v. Stars Interactive Holdings (IOM) Ltd. , 617 S.W.3d 792 (Ky. 2020). KRS 372.020 enables a losing gambler to file a first-party cause of action in order to recover hi......