The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether El Paso’s Tigua Indians can offer some forms of gambling on their land, setting the stage for an end to a nearly 30-year fight between ...
The U.S. Justice Department is urging the Supreme Court to reverse decades of court rulings that have said that El Paso’s Tigua tribe and the Alabama-Coushatta of East Texas were illegally offering gambling on their ...
The Supreme Court on Monday gave El Paso’s Tigua Indians at least a small victory in their long-running gambling fight with the state of Texas, asking the Justice Department for the first time to weigh ...
El Paso’s Tigua Indians might get an unintentional ally in their decades-long battle with Texas over gambling — one of the world’s biggest casino owners. Sheldon Adelson, the owner of Las Vegas Sands Corp., is ...
El Paso’s Tigua Indians have suffered another major defeat in their decades-long efforts to conduct gambling at their Speaking Rock Entertainment Center. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled April ...
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