Slot Machine Electrocutes Woman 

How would you like to be playing at your favorite slot machine only to be electrocuted? Not only that, but shocked so badly that you had lasting damage from it? This is the case with a woman who was playing a slot machine at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and found herself electrocuted from the slot machine that she was playing. 

Not only was the shock enough to seriously hurt her at the time, but it left her with permanent damages to her right hand. She was playing at the slot machine when she felt the shock go through her from her right hand, and it left her with a loss of feeling in her fingers that she still has. She had inserted her playing card into the slot machine and the shock was so strong it knocked her to the floor. 

The slot machine attendants reported the accident to the Defendant Manager on the floor and the woman, Willie Jean Robinson, was helped up by her friends. But Robinson has never seen a dime for her lasting injury and it took place over three years ago. Robinson filed a civil suit against the casino as well as International Game Technology for personal injury, lost wages, and the medical expenses that she had to pay as a result of the defective slot machine. 

But they can’t decide who is responsible, or even where to hold the case. The casino and the plaintiff have decided that the case should be held in tribal court, but IGT says that the tribe does not have jurisdiction over their portion of the case so they do not have to answer to their court.

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