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Kansas City Tribal Casino Wins Court Decision

KANSAS CITY, Kansas – As reported by the Kansas City Star: "The defunct 7th Street Casino won a decision in federal court that could clear the way for gambling to resume across the street from Kansas City, Kan., City Hall.

"City and state officials have challenged the land parcel's reservation status since it was granted by a federal agency to the Oklahoma-based Wyandotte Nation in the mid-1990s.

"When the National Indian Gaming Commission in 2004 voided that reservation status, Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline raided the casino and shut it down, seizing 152 slot machines and about $500,000 in cash. The casino never reopened.

"…This week, in a 44-page decision handed down late Thursday in Topeka, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson overturned the federal gaming commission's 2004 decision that disqualified the land for tribal gambling.

"While upholding several underlying elements of the commission's decision, Robinson overturned its ultimate conclusion, ruling that the tribe's purchase of the half-acre tract in 1996 amounted to settlement of its land claim against the United States whose roots dated to 1842.

"…Robinson's ruling was the third in recent months to favor the Wyandotte's decade-old legal battle for a Kansas City area casino…"

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