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Appeals court issues ruling on proposed Tohono O'odham casino (5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says there’s still an unresolved question about whether a southern Arizona tribe was rightfully awarded...
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Appeals court rules Tohono O'odham land in Glendale cannot become reservation (5/20/2013)
(Arizona) -- A federal appeals court gave foes of a new Glendale casino new hope it could be legally blocked. In a new ruling today, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
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Judge overlooked evidence, say foes of casino near Phx. (5/15/2013)
(Arizona) -- Opponents of a proposed Las Vegas-style casino near Phoenix say a federal judge overlooked important evidence when ruling that the Tohono O'odham Nation...
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Arizona asks for reconsideration in casino case (5/14/2013)
(Arizona) -- Opponents of a proposed Las Vegas-style casino near Phoenix said Monday that a federal judge overlooked important evidence when ruling that the Tohono O...
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Tribe Deal Didn't Bar Phoenix-Area Casinos (5/14/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Tohono O'odham Nation's plan to build a casino near Glendale, Ariz., a suburb of Phoenix, complies with the state's gaming compact, a...
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Disenrollment
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Embattled Nooksacks face tough fight in tribal court (5/20/2013)
(Washington) -- The sweeping legal authority of the Nooksack Indian Tribe's elected council could make it difficult for 306 tribal members to avoid the loss of...
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Ninth Circuit Sides with Cahto Tribe in Enrollment Dispute (5/20/2013)
(California) -- The Cahto Tribe of the Laytonville Rancheria, a small Northern California Tribe, can claim a Ninth Circuit Court of appeal victory in a case involving...
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Nooksacks facing disenrollment await judge's ruling (5/16/2013)
(Washington) -- More than 300 members of the Nooksack Indian Tribe must wait another week to find out if they will face loss of tribal membership and the benefits that...
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Graton Rancheria
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Judge Tosses Suit By Anti-Casino Group (5/20/2013)
(California) -- The suit against Rohnert Park filed by a group opposed to the Graton Rancheria Casino & Resort has been thrown out by a Sonoma County Superior Court...
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Suit against Calif. Indian casino dismissed (5/16/2013)
(California) -- A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by opponents of a Native American casino under construction in Northern California.
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Casino opponents' lawsuit against Rohnert Park dismissed (5/15/2013)
(California) -- A lawsuit filed against Rohnert Park by opponents of the Indian casino under construction outside the city has been dismissed in court.
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Jim Thorpe
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Law in Jim Thorpe dispute aims to prevent Native American plunder (5/20/2013)
(Pennsylvania) -- It was a sweat lodge ceremony in Texas where Jim Thorpe reached out to his grandson through a medicine man. The shaman told John Thorpe his grandfather...
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What's in a name? A lot. (5/19/2013)
(Pennsylvania) -- Dark clouds — both the real and the metaphorical varieties — cast a pall Saturday over Jim Thorpe's annual birthday celebration of the...
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Law in Jim Thorpe dispute aims to prevent Native American plunder (5/18/2013)
(Pennsylvania) -- It was a sweat lodge ceremony in Texas where Jim Thorpe reached out to his grandson through a medicine man. The shaman told John Thorpe his grandfather...
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Trump
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Judge tosses Staten Island woman's injury suit against Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City (5/20/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Donald Trump doesn't mind if you win some cash at his casinos' slot machines, but he'll fight if you try to take money out of his pocket.
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Judge scolds Trump, attorney during testimony (5/15/2013)
(Chicago) -- A scowling Donald Trump raised his voice on the witness stand Wednesday while an attorney grilled him and then rolled his eyes at the "Apprentice...
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Baby Veronica
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United States: Native American Adoption Decision Pending From U.S. Supreme Court (5/19/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- In this most recent U.S. Supreme Court term, the Court has heard two cases involving the domestic relations of a state. In addition to the arguments...
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Cedric Sunray: Cherokee Nation places sovereignty at risk (5/17/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- Disenrollment, Baby Veronica, and countless other issues all share the common denominator of being brought to the proverbial card table of contention by...
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PokerStars
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Atlantic Club Free to Back Out of Sale Agreement to PokerStars (5/18/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The Rational Group, parent company of PokerStars, lost its bid to keep its purchase agreement of the Atlantic Club casino in Atlantic City alive today.
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Judge: PokerStars can't buy Atlantic Club casino (5/18/2013)
(New Jersey) -- PokerStars was denied its request to keep alive a $15 million offer to purchase the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Online Poker Company Loses Court Battle over Right to Purchase Atlantic Club Casino (5/18/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Rational Group gambled and lost as much as $11 million over the botched deal to purchase Atlantic Club (AC) casino for their online poker brand...
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Poker Stars Loses Claim on Atlantic City Casino (5/18/2013)
(New Jersey) -- An Atlantic County Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that Poker Stars cannot keep its claim on the Atlantic City Casino hotel and resort which it is...
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PokerStars Dealt Setback in Bid to Enter U.S. Market (5/18/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The online poker giant PokerStars was dealt a setback in its quest to enter the U.S.'s burgeoning regulated online gambling markets, when a New...
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The Atlantic Club Lawsuit: Pokerstars Risks More than Monopoly Money (5/18/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- An expert on the American gaming scene, Maurice “Mac” VerStandig is well-versed in casino management from common issues of fraud and theft...
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Indicted PokerStars founder involved in Atlantic Club casino deal, court papers say (5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The indicted founder of an online poker company was involved in negotiations to buy a New Jersey casino despite promises to federal authorities he...
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Judge rules Atlantic Club casino can end contract with PokerStars and seek new buyer (5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- After paying an $11 million advance to a struggling Atlantic City casino it intended to buy, the parent company of the world’s largest online...
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Judge says Atlantic Club can reject PokerStars offer (5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Judge Raymond Batten has ruled Atlantic Club can walk away from its deal with Pokerstars. He is hearing arguments from Atlantic Club Casino Hotel and...
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Judge: Atlantic Club casino can seek new buyer (5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- A struggling Atlantic City casino is free to seek a new buyer after a judge ruled that it can scrap a deal to sell itself to the world's largest...
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PokerStars loses bid to keep deal to buy The Atlantic Club in place (5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- An Atlantic County judge on Friday ruled that The Atlantic Club was within its rights to walk away from a preliminary deal for sale of the casino to...
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PokerStars Loses Its Court Bid to Buy Atlantic Club Casino Hotel (5/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars was denied its request to keep alive a $15 million offer to purchase the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Atlantic Club Owners Aim to Sell Casino to Other Online Gambling Operators before November 2013 (5/16/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Colony Capital LLC, parent company of Resorts International Holdings (RIH), continues to thwart Rational Group’s bid to buy Atlantic Club casino...
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Judge to hear PokerStars-casino dispute Friday (5/16/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- A New Jersey judge on Friday will hear an increasingly bitter dispute between the world's largest online poker web site and the Atlantic City...
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Atlantic Club brings out big guns in defending one fine point of the PokerStars lawsuit (5/15/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The other documents filed by Colony Capital, Atlantic Club, et al on Monday in the Atlantic County Courthouse consisted of five experts who addressed...
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PokerStars responds to Atlantic Club’s bid for end to order preventing negotiations with other bidders (5/15/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars has filed a brief on Wednesday “in further support of a preliminary injunction” that would maintain the prevention of The...
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Atlantic Club casino owners ask court to allow negotiations with other buyers (5/14/2013)
(New Jersey) -- Owners of The Atlantic Club casino have asked an Atlantic County court for an immediate cancellation of a temporary injunction that prevents the owners...
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PokerStars-Atlantic Club Dispute Deepens [sub req'd] (5/14/2013)
(New Jersey) -- Seeking to overturn a temporary court order that prevents the sale of its property to any company other than PokerStars, the Atlantic Club casino...
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Mohegan Sun
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Jury convicts man of attempted robbery at Mohegan Sun (5/17/2013)
(Connecticut) -- A jury of six in New London has convicted a Bridgeport man on most of the charges he faced in connection with the March 2012 attempted armed robbery of...
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Bay Mills Casino
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Bay Mills tribal casino gets reprieve, for now (5/16/2013)
(Michigan) -- The U.S. Supreme Court is not likely to take up the case of a tribal casino in northern Michigan on the advice of the U.S. Solicitor General.
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Seminole Tribe
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Seminoles also fighting suit filed by senior arcades (5/16/2013)
(Florida) -- Lawyers trying to revive senior arcades have run into a new opponent: The Seminole Tribe of Florida.
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Grand Canyon Skywalk
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Hualapai chairwoman leads through Skywalk battle (5/15/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Hualapai Tribe has one of the most sought-after landscapes in the world: a slice of the Grand Canyon where tourists can raft the Colorado River, take an...
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Phil Ivey
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UK casino accuses US poker star Ivey of cheating (5/15/2013)
(UK) -- A major casino operator is accusing Phil Ivey, an American who is one of the world's top professional poker players, of amassing millions of dollars in...
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Crockfords Fires Back at Phil Ivey (5/14/2013)
(UK) -- Last week, we told you about poker superstar Phil Ivey’s lawsuit against London’s Crockfords for the casino’s failure to pay him the £7.3...
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Sands Corp.
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Gambling Lawsuit: Court Orders Sheldon Adelson To Pay Former Consultant $70 Million (5/15/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- Hong Kong businessman Richard Suen was award on Tuesday $70 million by a court in Nevada after he sued billionaire casino boss Sheldon Adelson, owner of...
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LVS found by jury to owe middleman for casino license (5/15/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- Billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp. must pay USD70 million to a Hong Kong businessman for his help in obtaining a Macau casino...
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Casino owner Sheldon Adelson hit with $70-million verdict (5/14/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- A Hong Kong businessman hit a $70-million court-awarded jackpot Tuesday when a jury agreed that he had helped the casino empire run by billionaire Sheldon...
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Jurors return $70 million verdict against Las Vegas Sands (5/14/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- The jury in the Richard Suen trial on Tuesday returned a verdict of $70 million in the breach-of-contract case against Suen’s one-time client, Las...
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Jury sides with businessman in Las Vegas Sands lawsuit (5/14/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- A jury has awarded a Hong Kong businessman a $70 million judgment against Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino giant run by billionaire Sheldon Adelson.
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Sands Ordered to Pay $70 Million in Macau Dispute (5/14/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- A Nevada jury on Tuesday ordered Las Vegas Sands to pay a Hong Kong businessman $70 million for helping the casino giant enter the lucrative Macau...
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Ho-Chunk Tribe
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Attorney general seeks injunction against Ho-Chunk poker in Madison (5/14/2013)
(Wisconsin) -- The Ho-Chunk tribe's poker room in its Madison gambling hall is illegal and should be shut down, the state Attorney General's Office said in a...
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Revel Casino
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Gambling Business: Revel Casino Bankruptcy Approved (5/14/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Revel casino, arguably Atlantic City’s most disappointing gambling joint ever, will soon emerge from bankruptcy with hopes of turning things...
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Other News
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Guilty fraud plea in $5.6M Las Vegas embezzlement (5/21/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- A Las Vegas man has pleaded guilty to fraud charges in connection with the embezzlement of $5.6 million from the prominent builder of residential high-...
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Casino site contamination prompts new lawsuit (5/20/2013)
(Maryland) -- A pair of Baltimore residents filed suit Monday accusing the city of breaking the law by allowing toxic chemicals to leach into the Patapsco River from the...
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OH High Court Asked Not to Hear VLT Appeal (5/20/2013)
(Ohio) -- The Ohio Attorney General's office has asked the state Supreme Court not to hear an appeal by a public policy group challenging the 2011 law authorizing...
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Judge won't dismiss $75 million casino lawsuit (5/20/2013)
(Mississippi) -- A federal judge has refused to dismiss a $75 million lawsuit accusing a Mississippi casino of serving a heavily medicated man so many free drinks that...
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Lottery dispute over $9M jackpot set for September trial (5/20/2013)
(Indiana) -- A dispute over a $9 million lottery jackpot that has divided former co-workers at a Lawrence beauty salon was set today for a trial in September.
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Officials surprised by tribe's quest for legal relief (5/19/2013)
(California) -- Under Richard Milanovich, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians evolved from an impoverished people into a political powerhouse.
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'Overzealous' security guard just doing his job on night of attack, court told (5/19/2013)
(Australia) -- Crown bouncer Quoc Hai Tran might have attacked a mother of four enjoying a night out at the casino but he loved his job and wanted to keep working in the...
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Judge urged not to convict bouncers (5/19/2013)
(Australia) -- A judge has been urged to fine three Crown casino bouncers, but not record any convictions for their roles in the assault of two patrons.
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Graduate has plans to become tribal lawyer (5/18/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Rilda Means has known what she has wanted to do since she was a junior at Red Cloud Indian School – help change the stigma of the Pine Ridge...
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New law eliminates confusion of jurisdiction on Oklahoma tribal land (5/17/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- A new law in Oklahoma gives tribal officers more power when dealing with non-Indian members on their land. A lot of people don't know that without an...
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Navajos weigh tougher crime sentences (5/17/2013)
(Arizona) -- Under Navajo Nation law, tribal members can shoplift, abandon a child, obstruct justice, receive stolen property and commit burglary and fraud without...
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Judge who freed Barry Beach laments his return to prison (5/17/2013)
(Montana) -- A Montana judge said he fears he’s done a “soul-wrenching injustice” to a man he freed from prison after 27 years, only to see him ordered...
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Agua Caliente tribe water lawsuit called a money grab (5/16/2013)
(California) -- Two Coachella Valley water agencies named in a surprise lawsuit over water rights are challenging the claim from the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla...
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Navajo Nation considers tougher crime sentences (5/16/2013)
(New Mexico) -- Navajo Nation officials are holding public hearings on proposed sentencing law changes that include tougher penalties for numerous crimes, including...
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Barry Beach back in Montana State Prison, likely for rest of his life (5/16/2013)
(Montana) -- The three-decade fight for freedom by a Montana man convicted of the 1979 slaying of a teenage classmate entered what could be its final stage this week,...
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Casino companies fight over Cotai trademarks (5/16/2013)
(Macau) -- A court rejects an attempt to register ‘Cotai Strip CotaiTravel’ as a trademark
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Defendant to plead guilty in Crow corruption case (5/16/2013)
(Montana) -- The youngest defendant in a corruption case on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation has reached a deal with prosecutors and says he will plead guilty on...
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Jury convicts would-be Mohegan Sun mugger (5/16/2013)
(Connecticut) -- A jury found Winston Riley guilty on Thursday of trying to mug an elderly woman in March 2012 in a Mohegan Sun elevator.
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'Irresponsible' suit a money grab by tribe, Desert Water official says (5/15/2013)
(California) -- Two Coachella Valley water agencies named in a surprise lawsuit over water rights are challenging the claim from the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla...
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Calif tribe files suit in federal court over water (5/15/2013)
(California) -- The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has filed a federal lawsuit to assert its water rights in the booming Coachella Valley, which is home to Palm...
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