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News & Analysis as of May 21, 2013

Gaming Legal News - April 24, 2013 • Volume 6, Number 11

by Patrick Sullivan, Dennis J. Whittlesey | Dickinson Wright on 4/26/2013

In This Issue: - THE MASSACHUSETTS MUDDLE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE MASHPEE WAMPANOAG? The Mashpee Wampanoag casino project planned for the town of Taunton in southeastern Massachusetts received a major...more

Minefield for the Unwary: Cautiously Optimistic Outlook on Online Gaming Expansion in the United States

by Harsh Parikh, Heidi McNeil Staudenmaier | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. on 4/19/2013

Gaming operations in the United States have traditionally been supply-side driven. Sheldon Andelson, CEO and Chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corp., recently analogized the industry to the movie Field of Dreams: If you build it,...more

Internet Gaming on Indian Lands

by Jennifer Carleton | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 3/7/2013

Originally published in Casino Enterprise Management magazine – March 2013. With no federal Internet gaming bill on the horizon, state legislatures are again focused on whether and to what extent Internet gaming will...more

California Reintroduces Bill to Legalize Sports Betting

by Dan W. Goldfine, Harsh Parikh, Heidi McNeil Staudenmaier | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. on 2/8/2013

For the second year in a row, the California State Legislature will consider Senate Bill 190 to legalize sports betting within the state. Last year’s Senate Bill 1390 passed in the California State Senate, but stalled in...more

Gaming Legal News - January 24, 2013 • Volume 6, Number 3

by Patrick Sullivan, Dennis J. Whittlesey | Dickinson Wright on 2/1/2013

In This Issue: - INDIAN COUNTRY AND OBAMA’S CHOICE FOR SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR: In March, Ken Salazar will leave his well-appointed office at the helm of the Department of the Interior and return to Colorado,...more

Gaming Legal News - December 20, 2012 • Volume 5, Number 28

by Ryan M. Shannon, Patrick Sullivan, Dennis J. Whittlesey | Dickinson Wright on 12/24/2012

In This Issue: - Indian Gaming Issues To Watch In 2013 - Will The Ex Parte Young Doctrine Swallow Tribal Sovereign Immunity Whole? - Detroit Casinos’ November Revenues Decrease From Save Month Last Year: Michigan...more

US iGaming expansion

by Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. on 10/1/2012

Originally published in World Online Gambling Law Report - September 2012. IGaming Update - More than twenty five years ago, gaming in the United States faced a conundrum as Indian Tribes and States debated the legality...more

Internet Gaming and Indian Country: The Trends and the Strategies

by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 5/30/2012

Excerpts of chapter that first appeared in Inside the Minds: Emerging Issues in Tribal-State Relations (2012 Edition) published by Aspatore Books. Excerpts reprinted with permission. For most of the twentieth century,...more