Martha’s Vineyard Tribe Urges Justices To Deny Challenges To Bingo Hall

(November 21, 2017, 8:21 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — With Massachusetts legalizing casino gaming and the resulting development of large Las Vegas-style casinos that will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in annual tax revenue, the question of whether a bingo operation with a few hundred machines should be allowed on tribal land on Martha’s Vineyard is not important enough for U.S. Supreme Court review, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) tells the high court in a Nov. 6 response brief (Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. The Wampanoag Tribe Of Gay Head [Aquinnah], et al., No. 17-215, Town of Aquinnah, Massachusetts, et al. v. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head [Aquinnah], et al., No. 17-216, 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 4283)....