Inland casinos send more than $65 million to state11/10/2008, The Press Enterprise Three Inland tribes have paid more than $65 million to California as part of their agreements to share slot machine money with the state. The payments reflect a portion of the tribes' slot-machine net revenue for the first few months under their new tribal-state gambling agreements. Each tribe previously was capped at 2,000 slot machines and needed state approval to add more. Gov. Schwarzenegger and the Legislature approved deals with the tribes allowing them to add a combined total of 14,000 slot machines to their casinos this year. In exchange, the tribes promised to share a portion of their profits with the state. Voters approved the deals in February.
'Now' hear this11/7/2008, Indian Country Today WASHINGTON - It wasn't all that long ago that former President Bill Clinton was splitting hairs in court over the meaning of the word "is." Legal squabbles over the definitions of simple words are alive and well with the U.S. Supreme Court currently deliberating the context of a single word within the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. And this time around, many a tribal fate is at stake. The word "now" became the star of oral arguments in Carcieri v. Kempthorne, heard Nov. 3 by the justices of the high court. Section 19 of the IRA states, in part, "The term 'Indian' as used in this Act shall include all persons of Indian descent who are members of any recognized Indian tribe now under Federal jurisdiction..." (this has the potential to affect some 60 California Rancheria Tribes) |
