The tribe also has secured permission to operate slot machines and other games of chance, putting it on a more equal footing with existing tribal casinos. A federal appeals court in May tossed out the lawsuit. Although tribal casinos generally must be built on ancestral lands, the courts said the Enterprise tribe, formally known as the Estom Yumeka Maidu Tribe, could be granted an exception because most of its original home was wiped out when Oroville Dam was built in the 1960s. Since then the tribe has cleared up its problems. Because of the litigation, the Enterprise tribe said it couldn’t secure permanent financing for the project. Thunder Valley, Colusa Casino and anti-gambling groups were suing to block the project, saying Enterprise didn’t have the legal right to build a casino 35 miles from the tribe’s ancestral grounds near Oroville. is a chain of theme bar-restaurants, memorabilia shops, casinos and museums founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton in London. But a few months later it was forced to halt construction because of legal and financial obstacles. Two years ago it finally broke ground on a smaller, $170 million casino known as Fire Mountain Resort.
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