Kline loses KCK casino case

[proud2BlibKansan]

Judges say Kline lacked authority
Closing of KCK casino rejected
By RICK ALM
The Kansas City Star

Federal appellate court judges ruled Friday that Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline had no authority to raid and close a tribal casino in downtown Kansas City, Kan., two years ago.

“There was no legal basis for the state’s action and very little likelihood that the state will ever have a legal justification for enforcing its gaming laws” on the small tract of land across the street from City Hall, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.

The immediate effect of the ruling was unclear. Conly J. Schulte, the Omaha, Neb., attorney who argued the case for the Oklahoma-based Wyandotte Nation, could not be reached for comment.

The tribe also owns on the site a long-closed Masonic temple, which it had once begun to remodel as a permanent casino structure.

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[PaganPreacher]

1. Very good!

Tribal sovereignity is a principle that our government uses when it is convenient, and ignores when it is convenient.

I hope Double L has his pay docked to pay the judgment and court costs on this.

The Pagan Preacher
I don't turn the other cheek.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. That was a neat little casino

I hope they reopen soon.