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Card, chip makers may be safe in fight over Indian blackjack

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Manufacturers of cards and chips who sell to the Seminole Tribe of Florida may be spared, at least in civil court, in any legal throwdown over blackjack at the Seminole Tribe of Florida‘s casinos. The Tribe is still offering blackjack despite the expiration of a special deal with the state that allows it to offer “banked card games.” Both sides are now suing each other in federal court even as they try to broker a new agreement. Current games are technically unauthorized…

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Is it “expanding gambling” to sell lottery tickets at gas pumps?

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Legislation is moving in the Legislature that would allow people to buy their lottery tickets at the gas pump despite a lingering question that the measure is an expansion of gambling. The question is more than moral or academic: Expanded gambling is a condition for the Seminole Tribe of Florida to stop sharing revenue from its casinos. The tribe kicks more than $200 million a year into state coffers. “Any expansion of gaming or use of lottery vending machines, beyond what…

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Gambling expert says Seminoles may run afoul of organized crime laws

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A prominent gambling-law expert is suggesting that the state has other pressure points to apply to the Seminole Tribe of Florida in an ongoing fight over offering blackjack at its casinos, including going after it with organized crime laws. Professor I. Nelson Rose of California’s Whittier Law School said he first offered that advice to the Senate six years ago, when it sought him out for guidance before the current agreement, known as the Seminole Compact, was enacted. “The legal analysis would…

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Hard Rock Hotel planned near Atlanta Falcons’ new stadium

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The company behind Hard Rock Hotels says it’s planning to open one in the downtown Atlanta area, near the Atlanta Falcons’ new stadium. The firm said Monday that it plans to open Hard Rock Atlanta in spring 2018. Hard Rock International said in a statement that the 220-room hotel will be next to Mercedes-Benz Stadium, now under construction next to the Georgia Dome. Since 2007, the Seminole Tribe of Florida has owned and operated nearly all Hard Rock Hotel units,…

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Seminole Tribe ad calls Rick Scott, lawmakers to “get it done” with new Compact

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The Seminole Tribe of Florida is taking to the airwaves with a new ad urging the public to pressure Gov. Rick Scott and state legislators to “get it done” and renew the gambling agreement known as the Seminole Compact. Signed in 2010, the Compact allows the Tribe to offer blackjack and other banked card games at seven Hard Rock Hotel & Casinos across the state. The provision ended July 31, with a 90-day grace period allowing for renegotiation and “structured…

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Florida files federal lawsuit to shut down Seminoles’ blackjack tables

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The state is demanding the Seminole Tribe of Florida immediately shut down blackjack tables at its casinos across the state, reports the Sun-Sentinel. The state late Friday announced it is filing a lawsuit in a Tampa federal court asking a judge to order the tribe to cease operations. Florida does not have legal jurisdiction over tribal reservations. The Seminoles were supposed to remove the blackjack tables this week. But the tribe filed a lawsuit seeking to keep blackjack and other…

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Seminole Tribe of Florida lobbies up with hire of Floridian Partners

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With its compact with the state of Florida expired and now in federal court to protect its multibillion dollar gambling interests, the Seminole Tribe of Florida has retained one of Tallahassee’s most prominent governmental affairs firms. Floridian Partners, the lobbying shop headed up by Charlie Dudley, was inked  this week to represent the Tribe before the Rick Scott administration and the Florida Legislature. What’s particularly interesting about this registration is, until recently, Floridian Partners had been signed with Las Vegas Sands, the gambling behemoth headed…

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