THE CATAWBA INDIAN TRIBE VS. S.C.
The path to Wednesdays hearing before the S.C. Supreme Court 1993: The Catawba Indian Tribe agrees to settle its 150-year-old land claim against the state in return for economic and education benefits that also included the right to operate two bingo parlors off its reservation.
Related Bingo News:
- Congressman offers aid in Catawba bingo case
- Tribe to tackle bingo hall, other issues at meeting
- Catawba Gambling
- Judge rules video poker legal on Catawba reservation in S.C.
- Court nixes video gambling for Carolina’s Catawba tribe
- Court ruling favors Catawbas — Judge backs video poker claim; tribe says it wants bingo in Santee
- Marion residents say “no bingo” to county council
- Catawbas file suit vs. state; state violated settlement: tribe
- Catawba bingo bill moves forward
- Listen to locals on bingo, Hutto tells senator
- Judge once again rules for Catawbas in video poker case
- Court to hear Catawba gaming case
Casino gambling information:
- U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
- In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
- Originally, the double-zero wheel started in Europe and the single-zero wheel started in America. But, Europeans liked the single-zero wheel better, and Americans liked the double-zero wheel better so they switched. Today, the American wheel and double-zero wheel are synonymous.
- French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.
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