5th Circuit Again Rejects Texas Tribe’s Attempt To Operate Gambling Facility

Mealey's (March 18, 2019, 11:29 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Texas Indian tribe suffered another defeat in its battle to conduct gaming on its land when the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed March 14 that a 1987 statute barring gambling on the tribe’s land takes precedent over a 2015 National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) opinion that gaming is allowed on the land under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) (Texas v. Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, No. 18-40116, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 7559)....