The Mississippi Gaming Commission has released the agenda for the March meeting to be held on March 21, 2024. Please click here for the agenda.… Continue Reading
The Mississippi Gaming Commission has released the agenda for the February meeting to be held on February 15, 2024. Please click here for the agenda.… Continue Reading
The regular session of the Alabama Legislature begins on Feb. 6, 2024. Legislators are allotted 30 legislative days during the session, which totals 105 calendar days. Once again it appears that competing legislative proposals relating to gambling will be considered. Legislators have grappled unsuccessfully with the issue since 1999, the year Alabama voters declined to … Continue Reading
The Mississippi Gaming Commission has released the agenda for the January meeting to be held on January 18, 2024. Please click here for the agenda.… Continue Reading
Jones Walker LLP is expanding its reach within the gaming industry by reopening its Tallahassee, Florida, office effective immediately. The new office expansion is the direct result of a successful and long-standing strategic alliance with Florida’s Dean Mead law firm. A total of nine attorneys and government relations professionals will join Jones Walker to maximize a larger client delivery … Continue Reading
The report for the Mississippi Gaming Commission’s meeting as well as the special meeting, both held on December 21, 2023, can be reviewed by clicking here.… Continue Reading
The Mississippi Gaming Commission has released two agendas for the December meeting to be held on December 21, 2023. To review the December 21, 2023 agendas please click the links below.… Continue Reading
On January 1, 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act, a US federal law, will begin requiring certain corporations and limited liability companies to disclose their beneficial ownership information to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the US Department of the Treasury. The corporate ownership structures of many gaming companies, particularly those that utilize … Continue Reading
The Mississippi Gaming Commission has released the agenda for the November meeting to be held on November 16, 2023. Please click here for the agenda.… Continue Reading
The Mississippi Gaming Commission has released the agenda for the October meeting to be held on October 19, 2023. Please click here for the agenda.… Continue Reading
The Mississippi Gaming Commission has released the agenda for the September meeting to be held on September 21, 2023. Please click here for the agenda.… Continue Reading
The Mississippi Gaming Commission has released the agenda for the August meeting to be held on August 17, 2023. Please click here for the agenda.… Continue Reading
The Mississippi Gaming Commission has released the agenda for the July meeting to be held on July 20, 2023. Please click here for the agenda.… Continue Reading
On June 30, 2023, in a challenge by gaming competitors to the Florida-Seminole gaming compact (the Compact), the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit held that while a gaming compact entered into between a state and a Native American tribe pursuant to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) can legally authorize a tribe … Continue Reading
The Mississippi Gaming Commission has released the agenda for the June meeting to be held on June 15, 2023. Please click here for the agenda.… Continue Reading