Today's student guest blog post is by Andrew Weiss, a second-year law student in Kathryn's Indian Gaming Law course.  Andrew's post discusses another twist in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's pursuit of a casino.

The Mashpee Wampanoag Indians plan to build a casino in Fall River, MA, which is about an hour away from Boston and 20 minutes away from Providence, RI (a highly lucrative location).  This new project was announced around May of this year after negotiations with the city of Middleborough fell through.  The new casino in Fall River will include three hotels, a gambling area, shopping mall, and indoor waterpark.

Now, Middleborough, the town without the casino, is claiming that the Tribe must still honor one of the provisions of its pact, a $250,000 yearly payment to the town. Middleborough claims that there is a valid contract in place and that the Tribe's decision to not place a casino in Middleborough does not make the contract vanish. Middleborough selectwoman Murial Duphily states that "there has to be some kind of settlement payment." Middleborough informed the U.S. Department of the Interior that the Tribe has violated its contract.

Read more on WBUR, Boston's public radio station, and on enterprisenews.com