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Texas Judge Rules Tribe Can Resume Limited Gaming20 May 2002EL PASO, Texas – As reported by the Associated Press: "A judge has cleared the way for the Tigua Indians to offer certain types of gambling -- but nothing close to the multimillion-dollar casino operation that existed at Speaking Rock casino before the federal government shut it down in February. "U.S. District Judge Garnett Thomas Eisele last week modified parts of a Sept. 27 ruling in which he ordered the tribe to end all gambling operations at the casino on tribal land in east El Paso. "Eisele said the tribe can offer eight-liners -- so called because there are eight ways to win, as in bingo, three lines vertically, three lines horizontally and two lines diagonally. "Eisele also ruled that the Tiguas can conduct state lottery games at their properties, and the tribe can offer charitable bingo if it gets a license from the Texas Lottery Commission. "…The court denied the tribe's request to participate in `carnival contests' because such activities are only legal for religious, fraternal, school, law enforcement, youth, agricultural or civic groups. The court also denied the tribe's application to conduct `player pool' and card games…" |