- Derek Gee/Buffalo News
- Construction work on the permanent Buffalo casino has continued despite Judge Skrety's ruling July 8 that gambling there is illegal.
Feds and Senecas seek to remove casino case from Skretny
By Gene Warner
- News Staff Reporter
Updated: 07/23/08 12:27 PM
The issue of continued gambling at the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino got even more complicated today, when both the United States and the Seneca Nation of Indians filed legal papers asking to have the case transferred to the National Indian Gaming Commission.
This morning, the United States filed a motion in federal court, asking U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to transfer the case to the gaming commission.
At the same time, the Seneca Nation -- which is not technically a party to the original lawsuit -- filed an "amicus brief," supporting the federal government's motion.
That "friend of the court" brief also opposes the ...
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