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Legal Attack on Missouri Expanded Gambling Law Fails
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI --
A challenge to Missouri's new law removing the state's loss limit was dismissed by an appeals court for lacking merit. The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals said that the combining of several points into one ballot involving gambling did not break voting rules.
Under unusual circumstances, the loss-limit removal was being contested by advocates for more Missouri casinos. Even though the measure expanded gambling by allowing higher wagers, it also placed a freeze on future casino expansions.
The plaintiffs had alleged that voters were asked to decide several unrelated issues on a single ballot, when the measure was passed in a landslide in November. But the court found that the bill had stuck to one central issue.
According to the opinion, "As the trial court found, the central purpose of Proposition A was the regulation of gambling and gambling revenue, and the provisions for fund distribution were incidental to this purpose."
The law also increased gaming taxes and earmarked funds from new revenues to education.
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