Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen is providing no assurances that are false their state’s appropriate right to authorize a ‘satellite casino’ 13 miles from the MGM Springfield in Massachusetts.

The issues that are legal the proposal are complex and uncertain, he said in a letter to Governor Dannel Malloy.

MGM Resorts has attempted to sue Connecticut over the enactment of its ‘Special Act 15-7,’ which established the method that allowed the state’s two tribal gaming operators to find a bunch municipality for the border casino that is proposed.

Since this is a commercial casino situated outside tribal lands, the MGM lawsuit claimed the the Special Act was in violation of equal protection guarantees and the commerce clause, enshrined in the US Constitution.

Basically, had Connecticut really desired to ascertain a casino that is commercial must have opened the process up to all commercial operators and not soleley its two federally recognized tribes, the Mohegans and the Mashantucket Pequots.

Constitutionally Questionable

Connecticut has made little secret of this reality the key purpose of the casino is to deflect competition through the MGM Springfield to counteract the detrimental effect that would have on its own casino industry.

The Mohegans and (mais…)

Atlantic City casinos are once once more thoroughly enjoying counting their monthly earnings bounty. So that as was the situation in previous months, in February it was online gambling that kept the seven staying land-based venues in the black.

Total gaming win for February arrived in at $205.36 million, a feeble 0.3 percent gain set alongside the $204.7 million Atlantic City collected in the month that is same 2016. But when the shuttered Trump Taj Mahal’s previous 12 months take is eliminated, the still in business resorts were up 6.6 %.

And that is only because of on line gambling where New Jersey residents gave $18.7 million to casinos, a nearly 27 percent increase that is year-over-year. Table games were down at the brick-and-mortar gambling enterprises, but slot play win was up 1.5 percent.

Borgata yet again led the real way with almost $62 million in casino and internet gaming win. Tropicana came in a distance second with $31.5 million.

AC Adapters

Five casinos have actually closed since 2014, but the ‘Gambling Capital of the East Coast’ is currently in the middle of finding some sort of new norm. Gaming profits have stabilized, and there is a bit of enthusiasm again swirling across (mais…)

Michigan Senator Mike Kowall presented legislation this week that would authorize online gambling in hawaii.

Kowall’s SB 203 ‘must include, but need not be limited by, poker,’ and, if passed, would permit just Michigan’s commercial casino operators and federally recognized tribes gaming that is already conducting to apply for licenses.

Kowall has past form here. This past year, he introduced a bill that is similar was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Regulatory Reform Committee before disappearing without a trace.

Kowall has additionally proved himself to be something of an optimist when it comes to evaluating the likelihood of success of his online gambling legislation.

His confidence was misplaced last year and he would do well to consider a more cautious line this year.

The truth is, there are lots of hurdles along the road to regulation in Michigan.

Hurdles Ahead

Like last year’s legislation, for example, Kowall’s current bill is big on interstate liquidity sharing. But Gaming Control Board deputy manager David Murley said at last year’s Senate hearing that this facet of the bill ‘raises significant legal and policy questions’ that would ‘need to be very carefully considered.’

In 2 (mais…)