NEW YORK— A New York State Appellate Judge on June 6 rejected a motion seeking to block Gov. George Pataki from signing casino accords with Indian tribes, according to the lawyer who filed the suit said a Reuters report. This decision could pave the way for Pataki to sign an accord with the St. Regis Mohawks, who want to build a $500 million casino in Monticello, about 90 miles north of here. The resort, which would be built by Park Place Entertainment, would compete directly with casinos in Connecticut and Atlantic City, NJ, the report indicated. Cornelius Murray, the Albany lawyer whose previous request for an injunction from a lower court also was turned down, said the ruling did not close off other suits challenging the Republican governors authority to allow new casinos, indicated Reuters. If Pataki were to sign the new accord with the St. Regis Mohawks before Teresi reaches his decision, it said, Murrays clients fear their case would be irreparably harmed because the tribe then could argue that it must be a party in any appeal. However, said the report, because the tribe is a sovereign nation, it could not participate. If a state court believed the tribes interests would suffer and that it is a so-called necessary party, it might throw the case out, Murray explained in the report. SOURCE: Reuters
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