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Nooksack Tribe Seeks To Cut 15% Of Members (5/22/2013)
(Washington) -- What’s considered the largest proposed disenrollment of tribal members in Washington State is still moving forward, following a tribal court’...
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Tribal judge refuses to block disenrollment of 306 Nooksacks (5/22/2013)
(Washington) -- Nooksack Tribal Chief Judge Raquel Montoya-Lewis has cleared the way for tribal officials to go ahead with plans to strip 306 people of their membership...
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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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Glendale Casino
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State officials fight for trial in casino case (5/22/2013)
(Arizona) -- State officials say a recent court ruling that allows the Tohono O'odham Nation to build a sprawling casino near Phoenix is improper.
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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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U.S. Court of Appeals Decision Favors Tohono O'odham Nation but Requires Feds to Better Explain Decision to Approve West Valley Reservation (5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- If you're keeping score in the Tohono O'odham Nation's epic -- and seemingly endless -- battle against state and local officials to build a...
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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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Manila Casino
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Okada's Universal Entertainment calls Philippines payment unnecessary (5/22/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- Universal Entertainment Corp., the Tokyo-based company controlled by gaming magnate Kazuo Okada, called a $25 million payment at the center of an FBI...
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Miccosukee Tribe
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Tribe Must Arbitrate Embezzlement Claims (5/22/2013)
(Florida) -- The Miccosukee Indians must arbitrate claims a former tribal chairman embezzled millions from its Morgan Stanley accounts, a federal judge ruled.
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Sands Corp.
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Jury sides with businessman in Vegas Sands lawsuit (5/22/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- A jury on Tuesday dealt another defeat to casino mogul and GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson in his nine-year fight with a Hong Kong businessman, awarding...
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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...
3 Total Articles on this Issue
Freedman Issue
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Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation (5/21/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- On an oppressively hot evening last May, David Cornsilk addressed a room of so-called “black Indians” at Gilcrease Hills Baptist Church in...
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Grand Canyon Skywalk
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Hualapai Claim Victory in Latest Skywalk Court Round (5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- In ongoing court battles over the right to manage the world-famous Grand Canyon Skywalk, the Hualapai Tribe claims victory in the latest round. But it...
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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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Casino hits back in £7.7m fight over winnings with top gambler (5/21/2013)
(London) -- Britain's oldest casino today hit back at claims it had welched on a £7.7 million payout by accusing a top gambler of cheating by “reading...
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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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Sioux City Casino
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Penn Gaming files court action over Sioux City gambling license (5/21/2013)
(Iowa) -- The company that runs the Argosy Riverboat Casino in Sioux City has filed a court action asking a judge to overturn the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission...
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Sioux City casino decision goes to court (5/21/2013)
(Iowa) -- The owner of the Argosy Sioux City riverboat casino has asked an Iowa judge to block a rival land-based casino project from moving forward.
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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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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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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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Other News
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Phoenix Sinclair’s godmother embarks on hunger strike (5/22/2013)
(Manitoba) -- The Manitoba woman who took care of Phoenix Sinclair for much of the girl's short, tragic life spent in and out of foster care has set up a tent on the...
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Denied recount, tribal candidate files grievance (5/22/2013)
(Washington) -- A candidate for the Colville Business Council has filed a formal grievance against the tribal election committee, saying she was denied a recount...
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Vt. Abenaki chief lawsuit on hold (5/22/2013)
(Vermont) -- A lawsuit filed by the former leader of an Indian tribe in Vermont is on hold until her pending criminal case is resolved.
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Native American Telecom turning over financial data in traffic-pumping case (5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- After two years of refusal, Native American Telecom turned over audited financial information Tuesday to Sprint in their battle before the state Public...
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Vague Complaint Dooms Tribe's Everglades Case (5/21/2013)
(Florida) -- The 11th Circuit dismissed a Florida Indian tribe's claims that the U.S. Corps of Engineers mismanages the Everglade's water systems, periodically...
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SD social services wants tribes' lawsuit tossed (5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The head of South Dakota's Department of Social Services asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by two tribes alleging that the state routinely...
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Aboriginal woman settles lawsuit over 3½ years solitary confinement (5/21/2013)
(British Columbia) -- The B.C. Civil Liberties Association says it has resolved a lawsuit against the government of Canada filed on behalf of a 26-year-old aboriginal...
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Some found guilty in Alaska illegal fishing case (5/21/2013)
(Alaska) -- A Bethel judge has ruled against some of nearly two dozen Yup'ik Eskimo fishermen cited for illegally fishing king salmon in the Kuskokwim River during a...
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Casino video cam ban ambiguous, prof says (5/21/2013)
(Macau) -- An ill-conceived attempt to prevent filming in casinos could cause problems
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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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4th defendant in Crow corruption case admits pay fraud (5/21/2013)
(Montana) -- Although he had no training in archaeology and had not been hired by the Crow Tribe, Martin Lloyd Old Horn admitted he purported to work for the tribe...
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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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