{"id":136562,"date":"2020-05-21T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T00:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=136562"},"modified":"2020-05-21T18:13:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T01:13:16","slug":"ebci-files-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-catawba-casino-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ebci-files-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-catawba-casino-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Files Federal Lawsuit to Stop Catawba Casino in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) has filed a federal lawsuit in an attempt to reverse a US Department of the Interior decision. In that prior ruling, a request by the Catawba Indian Nation to place land in North Carolina in trust<\/a> for the purposes of building a casino was put in place.<\/p>\n