![]() ![]() The statute requires the money to go to Oklahoma's Education Reform Revolving Fund, the general revenue fund and the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.Ī yearslong series of disputes between the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, the Oklahoma Tax Commission and the Oklahoma Alcohol Beverage Law Enforcement Commission led to the appeals court ruling. In Fiscal 2017, 32 tribes in the compact with Oklahoma paid the state nearly $134 million in exclusivity fees, including $114.6 million in electronic game fees and $19.3 million in table game fees. In exchange, compact tribes are obligated to make exclusivity payments to the state. Oklahoma's model gaming compact enables federally recognized American Indian tribes to enter into a compact with the state that allows them to operate establishments with certain types of faster electronic games, including video poker. That potentially could become another headache for Oklahoma's elected leaders, as tribal gaming is big business that provides substantial dollars to state coffers. ![]() “The court's ruling alters the gaming compacts of all Oklahoma tribes, making the compacts more difficult to enforce by both the tribes and the state itself,” said George Wright, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation's tribal attorney. That arbitration clause, part of a statute voters approved in 2004 as a state question, was the only remedy tribes and Oklahoma had to settle disputes that arise under the compact, one tribe's attorney asserts. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week an arbitration clause that's part of a model gaming compact between American Indian tribes and Oklahoma is unenforceable.
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