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MichGO Lawsuit Decision Against Gun Lake Casino
The United States Appeals Court based in Washington D.C. has scheduled October 19th, 2007 for a hearing that is expected to be the last chance of anti-casino groups to stop the planned Allegan County casino.
The Michigan gambling Opposition filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Interior to stop the department's plan to take the 147 acres of land in the Wayland Township under federal trust for the Gun Lake Band of Pottawatomi Indians.
The location includes the previous Ampro Products building which Gun Lake Tribal leaders plan to change into the Gun Lake Tribe casino facility worth $200 million. The issue has been long discussed in the judicial system since MichGO filed a lawsuit against the government in 2005 because of its announcement that they will take the land under federal trust for the Gun Lake tribe's casino facility.
A U.S. judge in Washington D.C. favored the government in the issue earlier this year. But he issued a restraining order stopping the land from being taken under federal trust waiting for the appeal of MichGO.
Two of the judges from the appeals panel, Douglas Ginsburg and Judith Rogers, have decided in favor of the government and tribal casinos in two other cases filed by MichGO. The third judge, Janice Rogers Brown, was previously not involved in the two lawsuits.
The conclusion of those two lawsuits became quickly clear: The Pokagon Band of Pottawatomi Indians from Dowagiac just debuted their Four Winds Casino worth $400 million this month located in New Buffalo. Aside from that, the Nottawaseppi Band of Huron Pottawatomi plan to start on September 2007 the ground breaking of their Firekeepers casino facility which is set to formally open in 2008.
The decisions from the judges in the previous cases were released within two months like the one scheduled for October 2007.
Monday, September 24 , 2007
Brian Letendre