The US Department of Justice is further delaying enforcement of its new opinion on the scope of the Wire Act to give online gambling operators more time to bring their operations into compliance.

On Thursday, online gambling analyst Chris Grove reported that the DOJ planned to extend the April 15 deadline for enforcing its new Wire Act opinion by a further 60 days. On Friday, a DOJ spokesperson confirmed to GamblingCompliance that the enforcement deadline has been pushed back to the middle of June.

The DOJ’s new opinion, which was made public in January, views the Wire Act as applying to most forms of online gambling, not just sports betting. The vaguely worded and legally sketchy opinion has called into question the legality of intrastate online gambling and lottery operations that temporarily reroute data in the course of their transactions, along with the payment processing that allows these sites to conduct business with gambling customers.

In February, the New Hampshire Lottery Commission and the state’s attorney general filed a legal challenge of the DOJ’s new opinion. The state’s online lottery platform provider NeoPollard Interactive filed its own challenge the same day, and this week saw a third suit filed by the iDEA Growth trade group.