This is Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette's press release regarding the state's casino fight. 

     Note his comment that the ruling will affect state's ability to control off-reservation gambling. Michigan wants that control.

     Bay Mill reportedly wants to also locate casinos in Port Huron and Flint Township.

Schuette Takes Fight Against Illegal Vanderbilt Casino to U.S. Supreme Court

Nation’s Highest Court to Hear Important Michigan Case on Whether States Have the Right to Challenge Expansion of Off-Reservation Gambling Operations 

                                                    

LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments regarding his appeal of a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6^th Circuit that halted Michigan’s legal challenge to the illegal expansion of off-reservation gambling by the Bay Mills Indian Community.  The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for the case Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community this fall.

“Today’s ruling sets the stage for an important discussion about the states’ ability to halt the unrestrained expansion of off-reservation tribal casino gambling,” said Schuette.  “We look forward to making our case before the nation’s highest court this fall.”

In December 2010 the State of Michigan filed a lawsuit against the Bay Mills Indian Community challenging their operation of an illegal off-reservation casino in Vanderbilt, Michigan.  On March 29, 2011 U.S. District Court Judge Paul Maloney issued a preliminary injunction ordering the casino closed pending the outcome of the lawsuit.  The tribe appealed, and on August 15, 2013 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6^th Circuit reversed the trial court decision, declaring that the district court did not have jurisdiction under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and that the tribe had sovereign immunity.  Schuette sought U.S. Supreme Court review in October 2012.