Despite an Alabama Supreme Court ruling last week overturning a lower court’s ruling issued in 2015 in favor of VictoryLand in a forfeiture case, owner Milton McGregor said at a press conference on Monday that the facility will reopen its doors early this summer.
On Thursday, the Alabama Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling issued in June 2015 and found that the raid conducted on the casino’s electronic bingo hall by the State of Alabama was within the law. The unanimous decision allows the state to keep the approximately $260,000 in cash and more than 1,200 electronic bingo machines that were confiscated from VictoryLand in the 2013 raid. The Court found that the application of an equal protection ruling in the case by Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Willia…