However, Judge Mendez failed to find any continuing harm to the plaintiffs. While the court had previously dismissed the case earlier this year, this time the judge took the additional step of telling them not to bring the case back to him with further amendments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe court also finds that any further amendment would be futile and, therefore, grants defendants\u2019 motion to dismiss with prejudice,\u201d he wrote in his decision.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe defendants in the case included both the state\u2019s Bureau of Gambling Control and a number of California government officials, including Attorney General Xavier Becerra.<\/p>\n
Timing issues played an important role in the decision. The case was legally tied to a June 2014 ruling by the California Gambling Control Commission in which Kelegian Jr. was fined $200,000 after transferring ownership of an out-of-state gaming interest to his wife in an attempt to skirt state laws.<\/p>\n
As the statute of limitations on related matters is two years, and Flynt and his co-plaintiffs did not file a complaint until December 2016, the case was dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hustler Magazine creator Larry Flynt failed in his bid to expand his casino ownership portfolio when a federal judge dismissed his challenge to a California law that doesn\u2019t allow individuals to operate gambling venues both inside and outside the state. U.S. District Judge John Mendez dismissed with prejudice the claim, saying that it fell outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":61957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,60,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Larry Flynt Loses Bid to Overturn California Casino Law<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n