Catawbas take argument for video poker to U.S. high court
The Catawba Indian Nation is taking its fight for video poker to the nation’s highest court. Members of the York County-based tribe have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case considered critical to their economic survival. In March, the S.C. Supreme Court ruled the tribe may not offer video gambling on its reservation because it would violate a state law passed in 2000 that outlawed the …
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