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Judge Puts His Foot Down

Judge Harry Hudspeth has ordered El Paso’s Tigua Indian Tribe to close down their illegal slot machines. The US District Judge says that they are running illegal slot machines at the casino and that they are “skirting” a 2001 court ruling that allows certain circumstances surrounding the running of slot machines.

The law states that you can have slot machines if they offer prizes worth less than ten times the price of the game or $5. However, the casino is handing out Visa cards that have money on them which means they are paying out in cash – and that is illegal. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott had made the stance against the slot machines and the judge sided with him in the case.

The judge says that this is the same issue that closed down the slot machines and the casino at Yselta Del Sur Pueblo's Speaking Rock casino and that they should have known better. He said that if they do not get ride of the slot machines that are offering the gift cards they will face a fine of $500 a day.

The casino says that they don’t feel that they have done anything wrong with their slot machines and are conferring with their attorney’s regarding the ruling. This tribe as well as many others has tried for years to get the state to allow them to bring in slot machines but Texas and its residents are not ready for such a move. Each time it has come up it has been met with a lot of resistance, so making slot machines legal is probably a long way off at this time.

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