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SACRAMENTO (AP) - The California Attorney General's Office is appealing a federal ruling that barred the state from seeking payments from an American Indian tribe in exchange for allowing the tribe to add slot machines at its casino.
The state also asked U.S. Magistrate Judge William McCurine Jr. yesterday to stay his decision pending the outcome of the appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
McCurine ruled last month that the state couldn't demand payments from tribes in exchange for new gambling deals unless it offered something in return. The right to offer slot machines was not enough, he said.
The Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Indians has 1,600 slots at its casino and resort in northern San Diego County and wants to add 900 more. |
