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The failure of an operator is the worst nightmare of a gaming regulator. Failure calls into question the robustness of the regulatory regime and can l...
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- Artichoke Joe'S California Grand Casino; Fairfield Youth Foundation; Lucky Chances, Inc.; Oaks Club Room; and Sacramento Consolidated Charities, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Gale A. Norton, Secretary of Interior; James Mcdivitt, Acting Assistant Secretary of Interior; Arnold Schwarzenegger, * Governor of California; Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of California; Harlan W. Goodson, Director of the California Division of Gambling Control; John E. Hensley, Chair, California Gambling Control Commission; and Michael C. Palmer, J.K. Sasaki, and Arlo Smith, Members of the California Gambling Control Commission, Defendants-Appellees., 353 F.3d 712 (9th Cir. 2003)
James Hamilton, Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellants.
Edmund F. Brennan, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U....
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Introduction
On 23 June 2010, the Productivity Commission ("Commission") released its Final Report on Gambling1. The Report represents a significant...
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West Virginia's three-member Racing Commission is in disarray - its chairman resigned last week and another member rarely attends meetings, lawmakers were told Tuesday.
Still, many legislators had doubts about a Manchin administration proposal to eliminate the commission and expand the current Lottery Commission into a Gaming Commission that would regulate all forms of state-sanctioned gambling.
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CHICAGO, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Legislative leaders and the powerful gambling lobby appear poised to pass legislation that will expand gambling in Illinois without any review hearings or other due diligence. "The tactics being used are the same ones the gambling lobby has been practicing since the days of Al Capone to get unsavory legislation enacted into law. Their efforts are cynical and callous," according to Art Bilek, executive director of the Chicago Crime Commission.
The gambling lobby is working through compliant legislators to speed this bill through the legislative process by inserted language into an existing bill concerning nursing homes. This new legislation profoundly expand gambling in Illinois," Bilek said.
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The debate over slot machines at harness racing tracks shifts to the State House on Wednesday when a legislative committee takes up Gov. John Baldacci's plan to create a gambling commission to regulate the industry. Political support for such a commission appears to be strong. But the governor's bill is coming under attack from Scarborough Downs and its allies in the Legislature because it would not allow the Downs to keep looking for a new home for its proposed "racino.
Voters in Scarborough, Saco and Westbrook have refused to allow a racino in their communities, and the Downs has run out of options under the law Maine voters passed in November authorizing racinos. That law says Scarborough Downs and Bangor Raceway had until Dec. 31 to win local approval for slot machines at their cur...
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Introduction
On 23 June 2010, the Productivity Commission (Commission) released its Final Report on Gambling.1 The Report represents a significant m...
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Cripple Creek's newest and biggest casino took a big step Thursday toward opening its doors.
The Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission voted to approve a license for American Gaming Group's Wildwood Casino.
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LEWISBURG - Union officials at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs rolled the dice Sept. 9 and appeared before the Greenbrier County Commission to ask the governing body to place a gaming referendum on November's ballot.
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- the Spokane Tribe of Indians, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Washington State, the State of Washington; Booth Gardner, Governor of the State of Washington; Ken Eikenberry, Attorney General of the State of Washington; Franklin L. Miller, Deputy Director of the Washington State Gambling Commission, Defendants-Appellants. the Spokane Tribe of Indians, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Washington State, the State of Washington; Booth Gardner, Governor of the State of Washington; Ken Eikenberry, Attorney General of the State of Washington; Franklin L. Miller, Deputy Director of the Washington State Gambling Commission, Defendants-Appellees., 28 F.3d 991 (9th Cir. 1994)
Scott D. Crowell, Kirkland, WA, for plaintiff-appellee-cross-appellant.
Jonathan T. McCoy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Olympia, WA, for defendants-appellants-c...