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IGRA at 20

( BIA and California and IGRA and Indian gaming and Las Vegas and NIGA and Uncategorized and class II and congress and gambling and gaming and indian affairs and off-reservation and regulatory issues and san diego and slots and supreme court )

Indian Gaming ‘08, the trade show of the National Indian Gaming Association, was held in San Diego last week. The show has become the second most important trade show in the U.S. following G2E and draws about 7,000 people (more when it’s in San Diego, less when it’s in Albuquerque; go figure!).
The theme of the […]

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This Prohibition Thing Still Isn’t Going to Work

( UIEGA and congress and gambling and gaming and onine gambling and online and regulatory issues )

“Last year, the percentage of American college students who gamble online fell to 1.5 percent from 5.8 percent the year before. The reason? A 2006 federal law restricting Internet gambling.”
That overly broad generalization was printed by the Christian Science Monitor last week in a hit piece on U.S. Rep. Barney Frank and anyone else who […]

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Feds vs. Tribes

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There is a new type of conflict between the U.S. government and Native American tribes. It involves the question of casinos created off a tribe’s reservation. In January, the federal Department of the Interior refused to take land into trust for 11 planned Indian casinos—including some very high-profile projects—because it said they were too far […]

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