Jonathan Caulkins
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Pennsylvania’s skill games are officially gambling – so should they be at every gas station? (opens the original)
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Pennsylvania lawmakers returned to Harrisburg on Sept. 28, 2026, after a 10-week recess with little time to determine the future of the state’s skill games. On June 15, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the devices are slot machines governed by the state’s gambling and criminal laws. The court stayed its order for 120 days to give affected businesses time to adjust and lawmakers an opportunity to act. That safe harbor period expires Oct. 13. Beginning the next day, Pennsylvania State Pol
Pennsylvania is suing TikTok over ‘addictive’ features – but that’s messier than it sounds (opens the original)
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced a civil lawsuit against TikTok on Aug. 11, 2026, filed in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas and accusing the social media platform of violating state consumer protection laws in ways that harm youth. One is deceit: for example, making false statements about how much of TikTok’s content contains mature themes, and about the ability of its guardrails to protect youth from that content. The second alleges that “TikTok knowingly created platfo
Pittsburgh wants to tax skill games – but the real question is whether to limit them (opens the original)
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Anyone who has bought gas or a lottery ticket in Pennsylvania lately has probably seen one: a glowing machine in the corner that promises cash payouts. There are tens of thousands of these “skill games” across the state, and until last month, no one could say for sure whether they were legal and, if so, who could regulate them and in what ways. Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ended that decade-long legal limbo in early June 2026 by recognizing that skill games are essentially gambling devices. Skil
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