(July 17, 2018, 12:36 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal appeals court’s dismissal of all challenges to the U.S. government’s approval of an Indian tribe’s casino-resort project in California will have disastrous effects on the surrounding community and “will encourage proliferation of off-reservation megacasinos,” gaming opponents argue in their July 9 petition for review by the U.S. Supreme Court (Stand Up For California!, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Interior, et al., No. 18-61, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 2531)....