Double Down
In its answer to the tribe’s complaint, the state says that the tribe has no right to insist on a compact for class III gaming because when the Big Lagoon land was taken into trust for the tribe, “the Rancheria misrepresented the use to which that land would be put and, thus, fraudulently induced the United States to accept the conveyance of that land in trust for Big Lagoon.” That is, says the state, the tribe didn’t say it would be wanting to build a casino there someday with Vegas-style slots.
The tribe is asking the court to find that the state acted in bad faith, and to compel the state to reach a compact with the tribe within 60 days. Failing that, said Moorehead, the complaint asks that the state and tribe separately submit their last, best offers to a court-appointed mediator, who will choose one of them.
There’s a case management hearing June 25, said Moorehead, in Judge Claudia Wilken’s court.
And if the state wins and the tribe’s class-III plan gets nixed?
Then the tribe will still go ahead and build a hotel-casino on Big Lagoon. “We don’t need a compact with the state for a class-II casino,” Moorehead said. “We could right now do a class-II casino and hotel there. We already have all the federal approvals.
It would be an uneasy concession: Class II gaming is basically bingo.
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Railroad!
Proposed lines ‘set rich blood a-tingling’ in early 1900s
Some Other Proposed North Coast Railroads
Choo-choo Fantasies
Exposing this east-west rail nonsense
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Undeterred Will
Will chides Andrew for lack of attention to detail and makes plans for his inevitable victory.
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Double Down
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