“This is a positive and significant development because it means the highest court in the land is willing to weigh in on what we feel has been decades of disparate treatment that has unfairly impacted our Tribe and the Pueblo. “The Supreme Court said today that it wants to hear from our Nations,” said Nita Battise, Chairperson of the Tribal Council of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas. ![]() The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas currently operates Naskila Gaming, an electronic bingo facility, on its reservation in Deep East Texas. Since that decision, the state of Texas has actively sought to block all attempts by either the Pueblo or Tribe to offer gaming under IGRA, a 1988 federal statute enacted by Congress to regulate the conduct of gaming on federal Indian lands. Instead, the Fifth Circuit found that the ability of the two tribes to offer gaming is controlled by the 1987 act of Congress that restored federal recognition for both Nations. ![]() The Court agreed to hear Ysleta del Sur Pueblo’s request to overturn a 1994 Fifth Circuit decision finding that the Pueblo and the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe are ineligible to offer gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (“IGRA”). The United State Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case that could make clear that two federally recognized tribes in Texas - Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas - are allowed to operate electronic bingo facilities on their reservations.
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