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Red Rock Tribal Casino in California Dealt New Court Blow

Red Rock Resorts’ casino project near Fresno, California has hit another roadblock just days before the company’s planned groundbreaking. The plan was first introduced in 2003 by the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians. The tribe has been seeking authorization to build a casino off-reservation land. Nevada-based operator Red Rock Resorts joined the scheme in[...]

June 18, 2021

Native American gaming activity in Las Vegas draws attention to North Dakota tribe’s year-old land deal

A plot of land near Mandalay Bay and Luxor was purchased out of bankruptcy by the North Dakota Indian Tribe. (Jeff Scheid/The Nevada Independent) A North Dakota Indian tribe spent $12 million a year ago to acquire 8.7 acres at the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip. The purchase was largely ignored. Recent activity[...]

June 18, 2021

Red Rock Resorts’ Long-Delayed California Casino Receives Another Legal Setback

The competing court rulings leave Red Rock Resorts’ Indian gaming venture in limbo. (Credit: The Nevada Independent) June 15th, 2021 A California appellate court tossed a roadblock in front of Red Rock Resorts’ planned development of a tribal-owned casino near Fresno that has been tied up in legal maneuverings for some 18 years. A three-judge[...]

June 18, 2021

Osage Casinos building new facilities in Pawhuska and Bartlesville

Rendering shows the layout of the new Osage casino-hotel in Bartlesville. Rendering shows the new Osage casino-hotel in Pawhuska. Osage Casinos this week broke ground on casino-hotels in Pawhuska and Bartlesville. The projects have been in the works for years. The Osage Nation applied with the U.S. Interior Department in 2014 to transfer the Bartlesville[...]

June 18, 2021

Developer planning RV park on tribe-owned property in Preston

Preston — A developer is proposing to build an RV park on land the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe owns near Avery Pond in the town’s southeastern corner. Blue Water Development Corp., based in Ocean City, Md., has invited residents of the neighborhood to an informational session next week to meet company officials “and learn more about[...]

June 18, 2021

Inherent Tribal Authority Includes the Power to Protect Tribal Communities by Detaining and Investigating Non-Indians for Violations of Federal and State Law

On 1 June 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court held in United States v. Cooley that a tribal police officer could temporarily detain and search a non-Indian traveling on a public highway through the Crow Reservation in Montana for potential violations of federal or state law. 1 The case marks the first time the Supreme Court[...]

June 18, 2021

Rain Rock Casino in Yreka prepares for expansion with new hotel resort

YREKA, Calif. — Rain Rock Casino in Yreka will soon be joined by an 80-room hotel and other additions to the development, the Karuk Tribe announced on Wednesday. The plan for a hotel resort has been in the works for the last three years, the Tribe said. The project includes a 48,000 square-foot, 80-room, 3.5-star[...]

June 18, 2021

Osage Nation breaks ground on pair of replacement Oklahoma casino projects

In northern Oklahoma and the Osage Nation has reportedly begun construction on a pair of new casinos some eleven months after having its associated land-into-trust applications approved by the United States Department of the Interior. According to a Tuesday report from the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise newspaper, the two Osage Casino Hotel-branded venues are set to replace[...]

June 18, 2021

MGM Drops Lawsuit Against Connecticut Tribes Over Proposed Casino

MGM Resorts has finally dropped a lawsuit filed against Connecticut tribal operators over their proposed East Windsor casino. The lawsuit against the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes were dropped without prejudice and none of the parties involved in the lawsuit were willing to comment on the same. When MGM resorts proceed to open its MGM[...]

June 18, 2021

United States: Adopting Breakthrough Factors, Connecticut Supreme Court Hands Victory To Tribal Lending Entity Great Plains Lending

In late May, the Connecticut Supreme Court held 1 that the tribal lending entity Great Plains Lending (Great Plains) is protected by tribal sovereign immunity as an “arm of the tribe,” adopting a test first established by the Tenth Circuit in Breakthrough Management Group, Inc. v. Chukchansi Gold Casino & Resort . 2 The case[...]

June 18, 2021

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