Undeterred, Flynt vows to keep up struggle for slots. (Law).LARRY Flynt hasn't turned in his chips yet. The Hustler publisher recently lost his case in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Superior Court over the right to add slot machines and house gambling games at his two Gardena venues, Hustler Casino Larry Flynt's Hustler Casino is a cardroom located in the Los Angeles suburb of Gardena. It officially opened on June 22, 2000. However, from the 1960s until sometime in the mid to 1990s it was known as the El Dorado Club until Hustler and Normandie Casino. Flynt last year sued the California Gambling Control Commission and state Attorney General Bill Lockyer William Westwood "Bill" Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is the current State Treasurer of California. Prior to this, he served as California's Attorney General and head of the Department of Justice for the U.S. state of California. , claiming he has the same right to offer slot machines and house gambling games as American Indians American Indians: see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the; Natives, Middle American; Natives, North American; Natives, South American. . "Our casinos have a place to play these card games in a style similar to a Las Vegas casino, but we'd like slot machines and the same games Indians can offer," said Michael Franchetti, the Sacramento attorney representing Flynt. "Those are more lucrative and more attractive." The two casinos in Gardena offer poker-type card games where players bet against each other but not the house. In his Jan. 24 ruling, state Judge David Garcia ruled that the "right to conduct the forms of gaming at issue here is limited to federally recognized Indian tribes, all of which are political entities not similarly situated similarly situated adj. with the same problems and circumstances, referring to the people represented by a plaintiff in a "class action," brought for the benefit of the party filing the suit as well as all those "similarly situated. to plaintiffs' private businesses -- or any others." Franchetti said Flynt plans to appeal and if necessary go to the California Supreme Court. |
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