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Tribal Slot Machines Not in Jeopardy

The Court of Appeal ruled that the suit brought against the state for giving the Indian tribes a monopoly over slot machines was not valid. The group, California Commerce Casino, Inc. said that the state had entered into compacts prior to the issuance of AB 687, and therefore gave the casinos the slot machines that they have now by illegal means. However, the court felt differently.

The group said that AB 687 “violated constitutional provisions” when they gave the tribes the right to operate the slot machines and thus kept the state from borrowing money to try and end their deficit. They are maintaining that by signing the compacts and by issuing AB 687, they basically doomed the state of California to the debt that they had, and allowed the tribe to maintain a slot machine monopoly.

However, the Court of Appeals said that the group trying to challenge the slot machine compacts waited too long to do so. It was ruled that the appeal was an attack on the “validity of the compacts” and because of that it was subject to a 60 day statute of limitations that applied to the slot machine compacts.

The group, California Commerce Casino, had to have filed the appeal within 60 days of the signing of the slot machine compact. Since they did not, the slot machine compacts could not be challenged, and therefore stood as they were.

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