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Womack v. Comm'r IRS

Gaming Law, Tax Law
Tax court's decision that proceeds from the sale of the rights to future installment payments from lottery winnings are taxable as ordinary income,...

Emerald Casino, Inc. v. Illinois Gaming Bd.

Civil Procedure, Gaming Law
In the matter of defendant adopting a resolution issuing plaintiff a gaming license pursuant to a mandate by the Illinois Appellate Court, denial of...

Charles v. Grief

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Gaming Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 racial discrimination and employment retaliation suit brought by plaintiff whose job as a systems analyst with the Texas...

Governor of the State of Kansas v. Kempthorne

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Gaming Law, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a long-running dispute over the Secretary of the Interior's 1996 decision to take a tract of land in downtown Kansas City into trust for the...

Int'l Gamco, Inc. v. Multimedia Games, Inc.

Contracts, Gaming Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement action brought by plaintiff, who possessed an "exclusive enterprise license" involving a gaming system network, denial of the...

Floridians for a Level Playing Field v. Floridians Against Expanded Gambling

Civil Procedure, Gaming Law
Upon further consideration, the Supreme Court of Florida concludes that jurisdiction was improvidently granted and therefore discharges the case as...

CIAS, Inc. v. Alliance Gaming Corp.

Gaming Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement suit brought against defendants involving a patent directed to detection of counterfeit betting tickets used in certain slot...

VanHorn v. Oelschlager

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Gaming Law, Government Law
An interlocutory appeal brought by the Secretary for the Nebraska State Racing Commission and three commissioners, which arose following denial of...

State of Texas v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Gaming Law, Government Law, Indian Law
In a suit by a state challenging the Department of the Interior's notice-and-comment regulations governing states' assertion of their sovereign...

Cates v. California Gambling Control Comm'n

Civil Procedure, Gaming Law, Government Law
In a taxpayer action seeking to compel state official-defendants to discharge their statutory duty to collect money derived from gambling belonging to...