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> We asked for and got a ruling from the regulators that the time that mattered was the time the API call was processed by the backend

I haven't been in that situation, but I imagine I would reach for a "what if it was snail-mail" analogy. "It's dangerous to honor whatever time the bettor wrote by hand, the postmark-time may not be fair if the mailman got delayed because of a half-illegible address or random USPS delays... So how about we go for when it was actually delivered to us?"



I wonder if that's the sort of ruling that just got thrown out by the Supreme Court in favor of having courts decide.




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