The legislature didn’t act on skill games by the Pa. Supreme Court’s deadline. What happens now? | Don’t Miss This

In June, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the estimated 70,000 skill games across the commonwealth are legally slot machines and subject to the state’s gambling law, which confines such devices to casinos and some truck stops.

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