MANHATTAN (CN) The Cayuga Nation can continue operating its
Lakeside Entertainment casino in a Finger Lakes village after the Second Circuit put a decades-long land dispute to rest Tuesday.
Finding that gambling on reservation lands is governed by the National Indian Gaming Commission, a panel of three appellate judges affirmed that the casino qualifies as a Class II facility under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
“This case turns on a straightforward question of statutory interpretation,” U.S. Circuit Judge Gerard E. Lynch wrote for the court. “As we and our sister circuits have held, IGR preempts all state and local legislation and regulation relating to gambling conducted on ‘Indian lands,’ as defined in that statute.
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The case is at the Second Circuit after a federal judge ruled last year that federal tribal land laws, not local ordinances, govern gaming at a Cayuga Nation casino.
MANHATTAN (CN) In what appeared to be a losing battle, a village in the Finger Lakes region of New York mounted their case Tuesday to restrict gambling at a reservation casino run by Cayuga Nation members.
The village of Union Springs argued that it should be able to enforce a 1958 ordinance restricting games of chance although the village does allow the occasional charity bingo game, like in the case of fire department fundraisers.
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