Italy’s Council of State rejected a bar operator’s request to suspend a ruling requiring the removal of gaming machines from its premises. The court said their removal would not automatically force the business to close, and scheduled a hearing on the case for 7 May 2026.
The decision leaves the gaming-machine removal in place while the dispute awaits a merits hearing.
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The Questore of Savona suspended a bar's licence for seven days, from 15 to 21 October, after police found VLT machines running outside permitted hours. Officers issued an administrative sanction for breaching the municipal operating-hours ordinance. The order also cited earlier police interventions over habitual presence of convicted persons at the premises.
Italian police discovered an alleged clandestine poker game in a bar in Turin’s Borgo Vittoria district on 7 February, according to the report. Officers seized the premises and gaming equipment, and reported the alleged organiser and the bar owner’s husband; the investigation remains preliminary and the suspects are presumed innocent until a final judgment.
The Nevada Gaming Commission postponed until February 26 its decision on whether to hold a hearing on Francis “Frankie” Citro Jr’s request to be removed from Nevada’s Black Book. The request concerns whether a hearing should take place, not the final decision on removal; Citro agreed to waive the deadline for the Commission’s consideration.
ANJL and IBJR filed a second petition with Supreme Federal Court minister Luiz Fux on 28 September, seeking to suspend Provisional Measure 1,394/2026, which prohibited fixed-odds betting in Brazil. The associations cited 833 new illegal sites since the prohibition, based on monitoring accessed on 28 September, and set out alternative requests if a full suspension is not granted. The petition was filed in proceedings concerning the country's betting framework.
Reportedly, a request in Chile sought suspension of online betting advertisements on television. It asked the National Television Council, CNTV, to apply the restriction at all hours.