At yesterday’s public ECJ Grand Chamber hearing on Bwin’s and the Portuguese Football League’s challenge to the gambling monopoly held by Portugal’s Santa Casa da Misericórdia, the two parties clashed over whether Portugal’s restrictive gambling policy could be justified by the public order interests cited by the Portuguese government. But whilst it was only Portugal’s gambling policy under scrutiny in Luxembourg yesterday, it became clear the high-profile case has attracted the attention of various EU Member States.