Thursday, the Arkansas Supreme Court denied a petition by the Cherokee Nation to remove Issue 2 from this November's ballot. Issue 2 would repeal a license for a planned Cherokee Nation casino in ...

Arkansas voters’ passage of Issue ... local vote consisting only of the county where the casino would be located. In this trial, plaintiff Cherokee Nation Businesses (CNB), which owned the ...

Cherokee Nation Entertainment holds the ... failed overwhelmingly in Pope County. Arkansas voters passed a casino amendment in 2018 that allowed four casinos in the state, including Pope County.

A long-running dispute over the fate of a casino license designated for Arkansas' Pope County is nearing a pivotal legal decision, likely to be resolved in April, as a federal judge prepares to rule ...

CNB is now suing the state of Arkansas, claiming they should ... funded by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a rival casino operator. The Cherokee Nation funded much of the anti-Issue 2 push.

eliminating the Pope County license and reducing the number of Arkansas casinos to three. Three days after Amendment 104 passed, however, Cherokee Nation Entertainment, which was awarded the Pope ...