Governor Stitt filed on Wednesday a response to the federal lawsuit filed by the Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes over the gaming compact impasse. In that response, Stitt is asking the court to declare the tribes are violating state and federal laws by continuing to offer Class III gaming after the compacts expired on January 1, 2020. The tribes contend the automatic renewal clause has been triggered.
NonDoc’s Tres Savage writes the governor is asking for five areas of relief, including declaration that the compacts have expired.
Also of note, law firm Perkins Coie is no longer representing the state. Stitt had hired the firm for its experience with a gaming compact dispute in New Mexico.
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