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December 3, 2020: YOCHA DEHE WINTUN NATION; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California; STATE OF CALIFORNIA,

“We need not today decide whether exclusivity is a compact term. Even assuming that it is, the remedy the Tribes seek, an injunction requiring the State to enforce its laws against non-Indian cardrooms that allegedly operate illegal banked card games, cannot be granted. Nothing in the compacts purports to impose on the State the obligation to enforce its laws against non-Indian cardrooms, and nothing in the contracts suggests the Tribes may seek that remedy based on an alleged breach of any exclusivity guarantee.”

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