State and Martha’s Vineyard want to see change in recent appeals court decision involving Wampanoag Tribe casino efforts
Just a few weeks ago, an appeals court ruled in favor of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head in their efforts to create a casino in Martha’s Vineyard, an island of Massachusetts, located just south of Cape Cod. A 2015 lower court decision that blocked the plans of the tribe to construct a casino on tribal lands located in Martha’s Vineyard was reversed by a United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston earlier this month and now the state as well as Martha’s Vineyard want to see the decision appealed.
With the ruling from 2015, it was de…