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On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review two Indian gaming cases petitioned by the states of Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
One of the issues at hand was whether to accept the Kialegee Tribal Town’s prop...
MGM Resorts International may have plans to create a casino in Springfield, Massachusetts, however, the company is still showing interest in creating a Connecticut casino. MGM believes that there are several po...
Cyprus Weekly is reporting that there has been a keen interest from casino operators from all over the world in obtaining the sole casino license to be issued in Cyprus. So far six big companies from the United...
VictoryLand, located in Shorter, Alabama stopped offering electronic bingo games and shut down their casino and hotel after state agents raided the property and confiscated cash and gambling machines in 2013 -...
It appears that the gambling monopoly of Svenska Spel in Sweden is coming to an end after the mounting pressure experienced by the Swedish Ministry of Finance from the European Commission.
About a year ago t...
In the wake of 9/11, New York passed an emergency law expanding the scope of the state’s lottery to include video lottery terminals (VLT’s), and required that at least 60% of the winnings be funneled into a sta...
Macau’s department of gaming recently confirmed that gaming revenue has fallen for the 16th consecutive month. This drop in gaming revenue is due to the anti-corruption crackdown launched by Beijing in 2014 tha...
Friday, a May 1st District Court of Appeals decision that would have allowed slot machines at Gadsden County’s Gretna Racing pari-mutuel track, conditional to voter approval, was reversed in a new ruling by the...
MassLive is reporting that DraftKings has offered the position of manager of government affairs on its website. The job description includes, "coordination and oversight of multi-state legislative effort," and ...
On Sept. 9, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley submitted the following request for an advisory opinion to the Alabama Supreme Court:
“Would an amendment of Article IV, section 65 of the Alabama Constitution to ...
Thursday night former National Basketball Association commissioner, David Stern minced no words in stating that it is time to legalize sports betting in the United States - just as has been suggested by his suc...
Compliments of New Jersey gaming regulators, state-licensed online gambling sites will now wear an official seal of approval.
The seal pictured in the lower left hand corner of the BorgataCasino.com’s homepa...
This year’s Global Gaming Expo (G2E), the industry’s biggest trade show that began last week in Las Vegas is all abuzz with talk of fantasy sports, the business that’s gowning exponentially, but whose action re...
Earlier this month the Idaho Supreme Court sided with the Coeur d’Alene Tribe in a lawsuit contending that Idaho Governor Butch Otter failed to deliver a veto to the Senate in time to keep instant horse racing ...
Brazil is suffering a prolonged economic downturn and recession with budget cuts and tax increases attempting to remedy a crippled government budget. Another idea is being entertained and that is to increase re...