Stand Up for California! is a statewide organization with a focus on gambling issues including tribal gaming, card clubs, horse racing, charitable gaming and the state lottery.

 Thunder Valley to scale back planned casino expansion11/26/2008, The Sacramento Bee
The Thunder Valley Casino will be scaling back a planned expansion in light of the current economic downturn, a casino spokesman said Tuesday. United Auburn Indian Community, which owns the casino near Lincoln, will be assessing the scope of the expansion, said Doug Elmets, casino spokesman. "It's important given the uncertainty about future market demands to look at the situation and reassess the project," he said. Elmets said the tribe will reconsider parts of the expansion over the next three to six months. Although there were no specific plans, he said, there might be "reductions in the square footage."

CASINO'S FOOTPRINT CRITICIZED PROPOSED
11/26/2008, The Press Democrat
The Cloverdale Rancheria is proposing a large casino, hotel and convention center that could transform Sonoma County's northernmost city from a sleepy, bedroom community to a gambling and entertainment destination. With an environmental review poised to begin, details of the project -- 596,000-square-feet of buildings with an additional 3,400 parking spaces -- have emerged. The tribe's proposal calls for a main hall with 2,000 slot machines and 45 gaming tables, a 244-room hotel, a 984-seat convention center, a 1,300-seat entertainment center and almost 1,000 restaurant seats. "That's almost bigger than the whole town of Cloverdale. That is unbelievable the size of that," said City Councilman Gus Wolter.
Tribe sues for casino 11/25/2008, Indian Country Today
JAMUL, Calif. - A federally recognized tribe has filed a complaint against California's highway management agency alleging it is imposing state laws and threatening to restrict access to a proposed casino site on sovereign Indian land.

Attorney calls San Manuel tribal member's arrest 'misunderstanding'
11/24/2008, The Press Enterprise
SAN BERNARDINO - Wealthy San Manuel tribal member Stacy Cheyenne Barajas-Nunez, also a recently sentenced gang member, could see her latest arrest untangled in court today. Barajas-Nunez, 26, was sentenced Nov. 6 to a year of house arrest with electronic monitoring as well as five years probation after her April 17 guilty plea for her role in a 2006 murder conspiracy. At that time, San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Michael Dest warned Barajas-Nunez that she risked decades in prison if she violated the probation terms.

 
Federal judge delays Duroville trial
11/24/2008, The Desert Sun
A trial to determine whether a Thermal mobile home park should be shut down over health and safety hazards was ordered delayed by a federal judge, who made his own cursory inspection of the facility known as ``Duroville,'' it was announced today. ``The judge saw Duroville in verite, like cinema verite, where you just see everything as it is, and there's no time for anybody to spruce it up or that sort of thing,'' said attorney Mark Adams, who runs a nonprofit organization tentatively overseeing operations at the Desert Mobile Home Park. "He saw the park, warts and all, that day.''


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Cheating Gamblers On The Web11/25/2008, 60 Minutes-The Washington Post
Internet gamblers suspect there's cheating in the off-shore, unregulated $18 billion industry of online betting. (CBS) A collaboration by two of the world's most respected news organizations reveals how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That's because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints. The results of the four-month investigation by 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft, producer Ira Rosen and The Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Gilbert Gaul will appear this Sunday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on 60 Minutes.
 

State Legislation to Watch 
On December 1, 2008 the 2009 Legislative Regular Session Convenes for Organizational Session

 
Federal Legislation to Watch  
A Lame Duck session may begin Nov. 17/18, there is speculation of a  'Lands Ominbus bill' to be introduced by Senator Harry Reid. It will carry approximately 160 bills that have previously passed the House, as well as Senate Bills. MORE AS IT EVOLVES. 
 

H. R. 2963 - ENROLLED Congressman Issa Transfers without regulatory environmental process 1,178 ac. in Riverside and San Diego Counties to the Pechanga Band.  AMENDED TO INCLUDE: 
No Gaming. Maintained as open space and construction consistent with this purpose.
No existing right of ways or right of use prior to the date of enactment are affected. 
H.R. 3490 -REPORTED TO SENATE Congressman Radanovich Declares that specificed federal lands are to be held in trust by the US for the benefit of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuik Indians  for non gaming purposes.
H. R. 5680 REPORTED TO SENATE Congressman Grijalva - A bill to extend leases for Morongo and transfer money to CRIT.
S. 3320  - Tribal Law and Order Act - to be introduced in early 2009. 
 

 

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