The Court of Appeal of Palermo, at the hearing on 29 November 2023, in the case of opposition to an administrative sanction relating to the installation of computers in public establishments, also used for gaming connections, following the discussion carried out by the opponent's defender , adv. Mark Ripamonti, decided to postpone while awaiting the decisions of the Court of Cassation, announced with an Order dated 3/10/2023, filed on 17/10/2023 in the judgment RG 243/2022, rendered in a similar judgment brought by the same Ripamonti Law Firm .
With this Order the Court of Cassation stated that "without prejudice to the legality of installing personal computers for browsing the Internet" it must be ascertained whether the connection with the gaming platform is "the result of a conscious and free choice of the customer and is not chargeable to the manager of the commercial establishment".
The lawyer Marco Ripamonti, in discussion, argued that if the Supreme Court had decided to agree with the tout court ban on the installation of computers even if potentially usable for gaming, it would certainly have decided with a sentence, since at that point it was completely irrelevant to establish the methods of access to the gaming portal found on the web. The proceedings in Palermo were thus postponed to another date pending developments.
