Alabama Supreme Court Compromised?

Milton McGregor believes that the ruling he got on the electronic games at his dog track was unfair. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that they were slot machines and therefore illegal, so he was told to remove them. McGregor maintains that not only are they not slot machines but rather electronic lottery games, but that the justices on the case were biased against him.

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that they were slot machines, and McGregor says that is because at least half of the justices are biased against slot machines. He says that Lyn Stuart, Mike Bolin and Patti Smith, as well as Chief Justice Drayton Nabers, had campaigned against slot machines at the November election and therefore that makes them prejudiced against his case.

He says that they should have been recused from the case so that he would get a fair hearing. His lawyer asked them to officially step aside but they refused. So McGregor felt he had no choice but to go the US Supreme Court for a ruling on the machines, as he maintains that not only are they not illegal, but the removal of them would destroy his business.

Nabers did not participate in the state Supreme Court’s ruling of the slot machines, but he didn’t recuse himself either. The other three justices ruled against the slot machines. McGregor says that his case was obviously not heard in an impartial court, and therefore was not a legal ruling. He is asking the US Supreme Court to overrule it.

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