Tag: South Carolina
South Carolina Justices: No Casino Allowed On Tribal Land
April 8, 2014
CBS – A statewide ban on video gambling means that South Carolina’s only federally recognized tribe cannot have a casino on its York County reservation, the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday. In its unanimous opinion, the South Carolina Supreme Court disagreed with the Catawba Indian Nation, which has argued that a state law allowing gambling cruises to leave from South Carolina ports also means the 2,800-member tribe can offer the same games at a reservation gambling hall. The tribe had been appealing a circuit judge’s 2012 ruling that, not only does the law that allows cruise ships not give the…