
Gaming law
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Oct 15, 2026
The Mayor of Buffalo is suing Seneca Councilors and the Interior Department over land purched by the Seneca Nation.
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48:56John CainHOST
So while we could argue that the Seneca's have enough autonomy that they don't have to be holding to outside laws, but the contractors we hire do.
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49:08John CainHOST
One of the threats, one of the reasons that the gaming law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the only benefit that really came to native people was that the vendors stopped being scared away by the potential of having the states come after them.
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49:24John CainHOST
Once there was a legal framework that didn't serve us, it did more to serve the vendors and the contractors and all those people we did business with because now they no longer were in jeopardy.
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49:34John CainHOST
We were never in jeopardy.
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50:09John CainHOST
They can prohibit native gaming if they wanted to.
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50:12John CainHOST
I would argue that's not true, but that's what the Supreme Court said in Cabazon.
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50:16John CainHOST
So a year later, they passed a gaming law that puts the state in business with us.
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50:23John CainHOST
which is an absurd, you know, proposition.