{"id":202301,"date":"2022-02-22T06:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=202301"},"modified":"2022-02-22T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:30:00","slug":"texas-tribal-gaming-case-arguments-today-at-supreme-court-other-states-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/texas-tribal-gaming-case-arguments-today-at-supreme-court-other-states-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tribal Gaming Case Arguments Today at Supreme Court, Other States Watching\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oral arguments are scheduled to take place at the US Supreme Court today (Feb. 22) on a much-anticipated case, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas. Depending on how the high court eventually rules, it could set a direction nationally, or may just address the local issue of tribal bingo in Texas.<\/p>\n

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US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, pictured above. The Supreme Court will hear a case today on Texas tribal gaming. It could have national implications. (Image: AP<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One key issue is whether the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) outweighs other relevant laws on tribal sovereignty over gambling. In today\u2019s case, the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe wants to again offer gaming, including bingo, which falls under Class II type gambling, at its Texas reservation near El Paso.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Basically, gaming at the reservation was illegal under Texas law. Yet, it was permitted under the IGRA.<\/p>\n

The state of Texas, which has opposed gambling expansion, went to court to stop gambling from taking place on the reservation. Both a local federal district court and the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the state.<\/p>\n

Tribe Likely to Win<\/h2>\n

When asked about the case, Robert Jarvis, a professor at Nova Southeastern University\u2019s Shepard Broad College of Law, told Casino.org,<\/em> he expects the tribe to win. \u201cThis would be in keeping with the Court\u2019s recent history, which has been very pro-Native Americans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It seems highly doubtful that the US Supreme Court would have taken this case just to affirm the Fifth Circuit, given that the tribe\u2019s dispute with Texas has been going on for decades and has been litigated almost as long,\u201d<\/strong> Jarvis said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The case also could change the current gambling controversy in Texas. \u201cA win for the tribe in this case will usher in a whole new era of gambling in Texas,\u201d Jarvis predicted.<\/p>\n

Nationally, a pro-tribal sovereignty ruling could strengthen the gaming claims of tribes in Maine<\/a>, like the Passamaquoddy, the Penobscot Nation, and the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians. This could apply, too, to Rhode Island\u2019s Narragansett Indian Tribe, and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

A win for the tribe also will help other tribes<\/a> who have been similarly stymied by pre-IGRA laws that have kept them from having gambling operations. Just how much help the Court\u2019s opinion gives them, however, depends on whether the Court writes a narrow opinion, focusing on just the Ysleta, or a broad one, focusing on tribal sovereignty generally,\u201d Jarvis said.<\/p>\n

In Texas, a pro-tribal ruling in the case could additionally generate momentum for pro-gaming forces more generally, Mark P. Jones, a fellow at Rice University\u2019s Baker Institute, told Casino.org<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the substantive impact of the US Supreme Court\u2019s decision for gambling in Texas is trivial — two small Class II casinos, one located in rural East Texas and the other less than 30 minutes from a racino in New Mexico — the political impact would be greater, since the operation of these two Class II casinos in addition to the Kickapoo Class II casino in Eagle Pass provides ammunition to pro-casino gambling forces for the adoption of Class III casino-gambling across the state,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

Supreme Court May Want Expanded Tribal Gaming<\/h2>\n

Also, Attorney Gary Pitchlynn, a professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, told Casino.org<\/em> he was \u201csurprised, based on prior 5th Circuit rulings, that the SCOTUS \u2026 accepted [the case], and I have to believe that there is at least some portion of the court that are focused on ensuring some level of gaming opportunity for all tribes, even if it is merely Class II gaming.”<\/p>\n

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He speculates the Supreme Court may be \u201cthinking of a middle ground solution, like holding that IGRA has effectively repealed that provision of the Restoration Acts for each of these tribes that required they abide by the gambling laws of the state,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The federal Restoration Act was passed in 1987. It governs the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes. It prohibits gambling and bingo on the tribes\u2019 reservations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oral arguments are scheduled to take place at the US Supreme Court today (Feb. 22) on a much-anticipated case, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas. Depending on how the high court eventually rules, it could set a direction nationally, or may just address the local issue of tribal bingo in Texas. One key issue is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":202303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTribal Gaming Case Arguments Today at Supreme Court, States Watching\u00a0<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oral arguments are scheduled for today at the US Supreme Court on Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas. 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