{"id":37125,"date":"2013-07-05T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=37125"},"modified":"2013-07-05T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:09:44","slug":"web-shop-case-awaits-court-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/07\/web-shop-case-awaits-court-date","title":{"rendered":"Web Shop Case Awaits Court Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26464\" title=\"gavel-court-delay-scehdule\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gavel-court-delay-scehdule.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gavel-court-delay-scehdule.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gavel-court-delay-scehdule-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>More than five months after a gambling referendum failed, the substantive case on the matter has yet to be heard in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>That trial is expected to determine whether web shops will be permitted to continue their gambling operations.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Wayne Munroe, who represents a group of web shops owners, said the Office of the Attorney General has yet to file a defense to his clients\u2019 statement of claim.<\/p>\n<p>Munroe said there are several steps that must be taken before the matter can go to trial. \u201cThe Supreme Court matter is a serious matter, so you don\u2019t just wander into court,\u201d Munroe said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou set the stage with paper. The judge will have a bundle of papers, a bundle of pleadings, a bundle of documents, and it takes time to do the steps necessary to get those bundles together.<\/p>\n<p>To date, that matter has not been tried, according to the attorney, though he believes the web shop matter will not take that long.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this matter, the only thing I see them resisting is the disclosure of the Cabinet minutes,\u201d Munroe said. \u201cThey may try to oppose that on executive privilege grounds, and we may have a hearing about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than five months after a gambling referendum failed, the substantive case on the matter is still waiting to be heard in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[151,137,49],"class_list":["post-37125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-court","tag-gambling","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}