S.C.
AG Balks at Video Poker Claim
As reported by the Rock
Hill Herald: "State Attorney General Henry
McMaster has balked at the Catawba Indian Nation's
claims that the tribe can legally have video
poker on its York County reservation.
"Video poker is illegal in South
Carolina, and the dispute sets up a potential
landmark trial later this year.
"The Catawbas, the state's only federally
recognized tribe, have threatened to bring back
video poker for years. In its July lawsuit,
the tribe claimed the lottery has damaged its
Rock Hill bingo business, guaranteed by the
1993 state and federal land-claim settlement.
Video poker was outlawed in 2000, yet the tribe
maintains that it is exempt from that state
law under the settlement.
"…McMaster acknowledges there is
a dispute between the state and the Catawbas
over the interpretation of the settlement, but
in court documents filed recently gives no ground…"
|
