Title: In re: Three PA Skill Amusement of: Comm - No. (Granted) (petitions for allowance of appeal)
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 7 MAL 2024
State: Pennsylvania
Issuer: Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Date: June 18, 2024

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT IN RE: THREE PENNSYLVANIA SKILL AMUSEMENT DEVICES, ONE GREEN BANK BAG CONTAINING $525.00 IN U.S. CURRENCY, AND SEVEN RECEIPTS PETITION OF: COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA : : : : : : : : No. 7 MAL 2024 Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the Order of the Commonwealth Court ORDER PER CURIAM AND NOW, this 18th day of June, 2024, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are: (1) Does an electronic slot machine cease to be an illegal “gambling device,” governed predominantly by chance, if the machine’s manufacturers embed into its programming a so-called “skill” element that is almost entirely hidden from view and is almost impossible to complete? (2) Should gambling statutes governing “slot machines” be read in pari materia to supply an appropriate definition of the term? Petitioner’s Petition for Leave to Reply to Answer Opposing Allowance of Appeal is DENIED. The Application of Proposed Amici Curiae Republic Amusements and Dillon Amusements for Leave to Submit Amicus Curiae Brief in Opposition to Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. [7 MAL 2024] - 2 The Application for Leave of Amicus Curiae Shay’s Vending Service of Lebanon, Inc., to File an Answer to Petition for Allowance of Appeal of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is GRANTED.