Is Sports Wagering Coming to the Bluegrass, and if so, How Should it Be Regulated?
Location
Gatton Student Center Senate Chamber
Start Date
27-2-2019 3:15 PM
End Date
27-2-2019 4:15 PM
COinS
Feb 27th, 3:15 PM
Feb 27th, 4:15 PM
Is Sports Wagering Coming to the Bluegrass, and if so, How Should it Be Regulated?
Gatton Student Center Senate Chamber
Speaker's Bio
Douglas L. McSwain has been a litigator, legal advisor, negotiator, speaker, and writer in constitutional, administrative, civil rights, equine, racing and gaming, employment, employee benefits, healthcare, trade practices, antitrust and competition law, municipal, insurance, and business law for 35 years. McSwain has been named and peer-reviewed as a “Best Lawyer in America®,” “Kentucky Super Lawyer” and "Top Rated Lawyer" in civil rights and employment, health care, first amendment, and municipal law, and he practices in both trial courts and appellate courts. In 2017, “Best Lawyers®” named McSwain “Lawyer of the Year” in central Kentucky in employment law.
McSwain litigates, advises, and speaks on all aspects of racing, wagering and gaming law. For over a decade, he served as General Counsel for the National Horsemen’s Benevolent & Protective Association, Inc., an organization representing owners and trainers of thoroughbred racehorses. He continues to represent owners and trainers in all facets of their relationships with racetracks and simulcasting outlets as well as before state racing commission regulators in numerous states. And, he also represents racetracks, off-track betting outlets, and racetrack owners and operators in states such as Kentucky, Nebraska, and Arizona.
McSwain is a life member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, and formerly served as President of the Central Kentucky American Inns of Court, Chair of the Joint Local Rules Commission of the Eastern & Western Districts of Kentucky’s U.S. District Courts, and 5thSupreme Court District Bar Governor on the Kentucky Bar Association’s Board of Governors.
McSwain has litigated or consulted on numerous horse racing, wagering, and gaming issues and disputes involving live racing and wagering, and off-track simulcast wagering in various States within the United States and also in Canada (e.g.,Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Virginia, as well as Ontario, Canada).His most notable published decisions concerning the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978, 15 U.S.C. § 3001,et seq., include:Kentucky Division, Horsemen’s Benevolent & Protective Ass’n v. Turfway Park Racing Ass’n,20 F.3d 1406 (6thCir.1994) andHorsemen’s Benevolent & Protective Ass’n-Ohio Div., Inc. v. DeWine, 666 F.3d 997 (6thCir. 2012).