{"id":303520,"date":"2026-10-10T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303520\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:50:10","slug":"pa-supreme-court-denies-petition-to-extend-skill-games-deadline-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303520\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Supreme Court denies petition to extend skill games deadline | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA &#8211; On Friday, Pennsylvania&#8217;s Supreme Court turned down a petition that would extend the deadline to keep skill games legal in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court ruled in mid-June that skill games are &#8220;slot machines.\u201d Because of this ruling, the state legislature would need to make the games legal under Pennsylvania law.<\/p>\n<p>Skill games are set to become illegal in the commonwealth on Wednesday unless state legislators pass a law that says otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no indication from state officials that they have any plans to pass legislation surrounding the games.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 70,000 skill games actively in use in Pennsylvania that must be removed from all businesses and stores by the deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA &#8211; On Friday, Pennsylvania&#8217;s Supreme Court turned down a petition that would extend the deadline to keep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[214,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-303520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}