Electronic bingo to shut down in Lowndes, Macon counties after Alabama Supreme Court ruling
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Date: Sep 30 2022 2:29 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the State of Alabama in its ongoing fight against electronic gaming machines, striking a blow to gambling operations in two counties.
On Friday, the state’s highest court issued orders pertaining to defendants in Macon and Lowndes counties, home to facilities including Victoryland and White Hall Entertainment, to cease engaging in “illegal gambling activities.”
According to the court’s ruling, the defendants, White Hall Gaming and Victoryland Casinos, have “no right” to engage in and “cannot be harmed by enjoined from continuing in an illegal enterprise.”
Justices ordered the two county circuit courts to, within 30 days, enter orders that permanently enjoin defendants from offering “electronic bingo” machines at any facility, from receiving money from the machines, from transporting or adding more machines, and “from receiving, utilizing, or providing bingo licenses or permits to play “electronic bingo” in their respective county.”
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