The AG’s office sued the facilities, as well as some law enforcement and city officials, in a pair of lawsuits in 2017, claiming that lack of prosecution by local law enforcement necessitated state action. The ruling comes after circuit courts in the counties denied the Alabama Attorney General’s Office requests for injunctive relief against the casinos. “Today’s decision will forbid the Southern Star, White Hall, and Victoryland casinos from offering their slot-machine gambling to the public.
“The Alabama Supreme Court’s opinion makes clear what my office has maintained from the start: these gambling enterprises are not only patently illegal under Alabama law, but also a menace to public health, morals, safety, and welfare,” Marshall said. Attorney General Steve Marshall responded to the ruling in a statement sent Friday afternoon, calling electronic bingo 'a misnomer used by the casinos to mean 'video-slot-machine gambling.''
