A North Carolina company that sold software to sweepstakes cafes in California has paid more than $1.8 million in civil penalties. Kern County Supervising Deputy D.A. Greg Pulskamp says the fine against Figure 8 Technologies was levied under the state’s Unfair Competition Law, which sees Internet cafes as illegal, mini-casinos.

Two cases from Bakersfield that paved the way against Internet cafes were argued before the Supreme Court.

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