Legends has filed a rebuttal response to Choctaw’s motion to Intervene in Gulfside’s lawsuit over Legend’s qualifications to operate a casino (60CV-21-1653). Here’s the opening paragraph:
Filing its Motion to Intervene over eight months after another unqualified applicant – Gulfside Casino Partnership (“Gulfside”) – filed its Petition, Choctaw Nation regurgitates Gulfside’s deeply flawed argument over Legends’ casino gaming experience and requests intervention because it operates a casino some 100 miles away from Pope County that might lose business when a casino opens in Pope County. The Choctaw Nations’ motion makes little pretense to cover its true, sole interest in this matter: delay. At this point, the Choctaw Nation’s standing to intervene is no different than Gulfside’s standing to bring this APA appeal. Neither are qualified applicants, and neither ever will be. They have no legally recognizable interest in whether a casino commences operation in Pope County (Amendment 100 already decided that question.) Nor do they have any legally recognizable interest in who the ARC selects to operate the Pope County casino. This case should be dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, and the Choctaw Nation’s Motion to Intervene should be denied as moot.
For those inclined to read the whole thing, here’s a link: http://pope-county-casino-info.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CNBs-response-to-Choctaws-motion-to-intervene.pdf