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Why a Las Vegas casino holds the key to Western water

Hallway exchanges and happy hour chats at an annual conference at a Las Vegas hotel this week will determine the direction of the American West's most high-stakes water fight. | John Locher/AP LAS VEGAS, Nevada - The country's highest-stakes water fight in a century is playing out this week at a Las Vegas casino. The seven Western states that share…

Land-based ・ 14 December 2023

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Road to ICE 2024: Casino and gaming

It's been a big year for the casino and gaming sector, with plenty of talking points for ICE 2024. Here we delve into some of the biggest US news of the year. Arguably, tribal nations in the US have dodged a bullet so far when it comes to attacks on their sovereignty. As a result, they should feel buoyed by recent court rulings. However, with state…

Sports ・ 23 November 2023

Legit Gambling

Seminole Gambling Deal Gets Big Win

In a move that could remake Florida's gambling landscape, a federal appeals court overturned a ruling that blocked a deal giving the Seminole Tribe control over sports betting throughout the state. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed a November 2021 decision by a…

Law ・ 03 July 2023

Eagle Tribune

Ivan Toney's ban from soccer was reduced because of gambling addiction

MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Ivan Toney was diagnosed with a gambling addiction after being charged with 232 counts of breaching English soccer's betting rules, an independent regulatory commission said in a ruling published Friday. The Brentford striker last week was suspended for eight months because of the breaches. The independent commission said…

Gambling Addiction ・ 27 May 2023

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Proposed Tribal Gambling Rules Would Alter U.S. Gambling

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is updating its rules. Several of the proposed changes could bring the most transformative change to tribal gambling since the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988. The public comment period for the proposed rules ends on March 1, at which point BIA will publish the updated guidelines - barring an…

Law ・ 23 February 2023

Tampa Bay Times

Feds urge court to reverse invalidation of Florida’s gambling compact with Seminole Tribe

TALLAHASSEE - Lawyers for the federal government asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to reverse a ruling that invalidated Florida's attempt to give the Seminole Tribe a monopoly on sports betting in the state. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments from lawyers for the U.S.…

Law ・ 14 December 2022

Tampa Bay Times

Biden administration says Florida, Seminole Tribe gambling deal should get OK

TALLAHASSEE - The Biden administration is urging an appeals court to reinstate a deal that gave the Seminole Tribe control of sports betting throughout Florida, nearly nine months after a Washington, D.C.-based judge ruled that the 30-year agreement violated federal law. A U.S. Department of the Interior brief filed Wednesday offered a…

Poker ・ 19 August 2022

ESPN

Gabriel Jesus' Arsenal move has World Cup implications for Brazil

Gabriel Jesus hit the ground running when he joined Manchester City. Still a teenager at the start of 2017, the striker made such an impression that for a while he was in the starting lineup and City legend Sergio Aguero was on the bench. Five and a half years later, it is apparent that he has not become the long-term successor to Aguero, an…

Religion ・ 29 June 2022

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Muskegon County casino approval complicated by another tribe that calls it ‘shameful’

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants to delay a decision on a Muskegon County casino until a federal decision is made on whether to recognize a different tribe that may want to open its own casino. A decision on whether to federally recognize the Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians is due by Oct. 12. If it does receive federal…

Mobile ・ 26 May 2022

Legit Gambling

Las Vegas Sands Drops Bid for North Florida Casinos

After spending more than $70 million and wrangling in court for months, backers of a proposed constitutional amendment that would open the door to Las Vegas-style casinos in North Florida have dropped an effort to place the measure on the 2022 ballot. The clash over the casino initiative pitted Las Vegas Sands Corp. against the Seminole Tribe of…

Law ・ 04 April 2022

Tampa Bay Times

Las Vegas Sands drops bid for North Florida casinos on 2022 ballot

TALLAHASSEE - After spending more than $70 million and wrangling in court for months, backers of a proposed constitutional amendment that would open the door to Las Vegas-style casinos in North Florida have dropped an effort to place the measure on the 2022 ballot. The clash over the casino initiative pitted Las Vegas Sands Corp. against the…

Law ・ 02 April 2022

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Feds' next move unclear in gambling fight

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (News Service of Florida) - As the Seminole Tribe pursues a legal battle to regain control over online sports betting in Florida, the federal government has not decided whether to launch an appeal. The Seminoles are appealing a decision by U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, who last month scrapped a deal negotiated by Gov. Ron…

Sports ・ 29 December 2021

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Florida-Seminole gambling deal doesn’t break law, feds say

TALLAHASSEE - The U.S. Department of the Interior has fired back against allegations that a deal giving the Seminole Tribe control of sports betting in Florida violates federal law, pointing to a decision by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature to allow the tribe to accept bets from throughout the state. Department attorneys filed a 33-page court…

Poker ・ 06 December 2021

Review Journal

More states considering casino gambling expansion

It's no wonder why states across the nation are in various stages of introducing some form of gaming to their citizens. The American Gaming Association last week reported that commercial gaming revenue hit a quarterly record for the months of July, August and September and that revenue is on a record pace for 2021. The AGA said that with $38.67…

Gaming Authorities ・ 15 November 2021

Sun Sentinel

Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging gambling deal

Dealing a win to Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Seminole Tribe, a federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging a gambling agreement that allows the tribe to have control over sports betting in Florida. Owners of the pari-mutuels Magic City Casino in Miami-Dade County and Bonita Springs Poker Room in Southwest Florida filed the lawsuit in…

Law ・ 19 October 2021

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Judge tosses lawsuit challenging Seminole Gambling Deal

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Dealing a win to Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Seminole Tribe, a federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging a gambling agreement that allows the tribe to have control over sports betting in Florida. Owners of the pari-mutuels Magic City Casino in Miami-Dade County and Bonita Springs Poker Room in Southwest Florida filed…

Law ・ 19 October 2021

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South FL businessmen, No Casinos sue to strike down gambling expansion

two lawsuits fighting for control of sports betting in Florida's new gambling compact, there's now a third lawsuit seeking to invalidate the compact altogether. A group of South Florida businessmen and their companies, along with the anti-gambling group No Casinos, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., late Monday, arguing that the…

Law ・ 10 October 2021

Florida Politics

No Casinos, others sue to stop Seminole Compact

No Casinos asks a federal court to declare the Compact in violation of state, federal laws. Charging that the new Seminole Compact is a clear violation of the Florida Constitution and several federal laws, No Casinos and others filed suit Monday in federal court to block it. The suit asks a judge to set aside Florida's approval of the new 30-year…

Law ・ 04 October 2021

The Buffalo News

Federal review calls into question legality of Seneca casino payments to NY

ALBANY - The Biden administration has opened an inquiry into whether a casino revenue sharing deal between the Seneca Nation of Indians and New York State is legal, a potentially significant step for the tribe that has been ordered by an arbitration panel and federal judges to pay $500 million in missed casino payments to Albany. The Senecas filed…

Payment Methods ・ 24 September 2021

Orlando Sentinel

Seminole Tribe seeks dismissal of lawsuit challenging Florida gambling deal

TALLAHASSEE - The Seminole Tribe is trying to scuttle a federal lawsuit challenging a new gambling deal with the state that calls for the tribe to operate sports betting in Florida. Lawyers for the tribe on Tuesday filed court documents seeking to intervene in a lawsuit filed by two pari-mutuel operations and arguing that the lawsuit should be…

Law ・ 31 August 2021

Legit Gambling

South Florida Casinos Sue Over State's 'Monopoly' Gambling Deal With Seminole Tribe of Florida

Boies Schiller Flexner sued the U.S. Department of the Interior and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Monday in District of Columbia District Court on behalf of two South Florida casino operators. The suit challenges Haaland's Aug. 5 approval of a 2021 gaming compact between the State of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. According to the…

Sports ・ 17 August 2021

The Washington Post

Seminole Indians hit the jackpot with controversial Florida gambling deal

TAMPA - The cavernous Seminole Hard Rock Casino rocks around the clock with 5000 noisy slot machines; a couple hundred poker, blackjack and baccarat tables; and superstar artifacts such as Elvis Presley's gold piano. But gamblers who enter through the Lucky Street entrance pass first through a quiet, dimly lit hallway of black-and-white photos…

Winnings ・ 11 July 2021

Sun Sentinel

First lawsuit filed against Florida gambling deal

Two pari-mutuels filed the first federal lawsuit against the state's gambling deal with the Seminole Tribe of Florida. It could be the first of several. The lawsuit, filed Friday by the owners of Magic City Casino in Miami and Bonita Springs Poker Room, argues that the sports betting deal violates the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, or IGRA,…

Law ・ 06 July 2021

Tampa Bay Times

Florida lawsuit challenges new Seminole gambling compact

TALLAHASSEE - One of Florida's oldest parimutuel companies, owner of Miami's Magic City Casino and the Bonita Springs Poker Room, has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Florida gaming compact between the state and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, alleging that the sports betting component is a based on "legal fiction" that violates federal…

Law ・ 05 July 2021

Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Feds need to reject Florida’s fatally flawed gambling deal with Seminole Tribe

No matter what the state of Florida might claim, it is not asking the U.S. Department of the Interior to approve a deal that legalizes sports betting on Seminole tribal land. It's asking the federal government to approve a precedent-setting deal with the Seminole Tribe that authorizes sports betting on every square inch of Florida - tribal land or…

Law ・ 21 June 2021