While Judge Mary Cooper of the US District Court of Trenton, New Jersey, said she expects to rule within the next 30 days in the iMEGA case against the UIGEA, Naotaka Matsukata, a senior policy advisor with Alston & Bird and former director of policy planning for the United States Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick, invited the United States to quickly resolve the trade dispute around internet gambling as it could result in trade compensation penalties in excess of $100 billion.