Simmons is “an unlikely candidate” for aggressive civil penalties, though he appears to have violated online gaming laws in Massachusetts, said Mark Gottlieb, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston.

“The state is essentially giving kids free samples of products that are most likely to cause problems of addiction in users, which is a disappointing choice,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University.

Also: sportsbooks have more advanced products than they used to, and now promote live betting. “This is just so different from going to Vegas and betting on who’s gonna win the tournament,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of Northeastern’s Public Health Advocacy Institute.

“The finding that the Commission failed to take a proactive role monitoring sports gambling advertising in the critical first months of Massachusetts sports betting is a cause for deep concern,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University. “Potentially dangerous consumer products demand a robust regulatory oversight that was absent […]

The long list of speakers included Mark Gottlieb, executive director of Northeastern University School of Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, which has worked extensively on tobacco policy and clinical addiction, as well as Harvard doctors and professors, select board members and Reading residents. 

“It may or may not be doing what they set out to do, but I think the concept struck us as a very solid one,” said Mark Gottlieb, the executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston.

“We’re at a level of readiness that is really the envy of most other states,” says Mark Gottlieb, a lawyer who runs Northeastern University’s Public Health Advocacy Institute. “This is a really good place to see where this policy can go.”

Mark Gottlieb executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law, said at the meeting that it’s common for towns and cities to go first with setting new public health policies that then become adopted statewide and nationally. 

“Absolutely. That is their target population. That is where they’re going to grow their market,” said Mark Gottlieb, Public Health Advocacy Group executive director.

Harry Levant doesn’t make that analogy casually. Recently, he paired up with Dick Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University and architect of the first major lawsuits against the big tobacco companies.