Court Opinion

ID: 8913894
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-27 04:12:14.407116+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:08:47.482057
License: Public Domain

RONEY, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent on the ground that the State of Florida has prohibited, not regulated, the precise kind of bingo operation which the plaintiff seeks to conduct. As a matter of fact, it is because such activity is prohibited in Florida that this business was started and is successful. The reasons that Florida laws prohibit such a bingo business, focusing on the indirect consequences of it, whether right or wrong, are as applicable to a bingo casino on the Indian reservation as they are to such a business off a reservation. If only Indians were involved, or if the effects of the bingo casino were shown to be confined to the reservation, the decisions relied upon by the Court might be applicable. Without such a showing, in my opinion, they are not. I would reverse.