San Pasqual Tribe is Suing California 

The San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians is suing the state of California. They are seeking $115 million in profits that they say that the state kept from them, and they want to be paid. They say that the governor of the state denied them slot machines that were rightfully theirs and now that a judge has made it official, it is high time that they were paid back for their lost winnings. 

They have filed a lawsuit claiming that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denied them the right to have slot machines that should have been theirs all along. They said that the governor refused to grant them their slot machine licenses. Last year a federal judge ruled in favor of the tribes saying that the governor was illegally withholding those slot machine licenses. 

They say that the state breached their 1999 contract with the tribes and interfered with their ability to provide the slot machines to their patrons. They said that they needed the additional slot machines to bring in the income that they needed during these tough economic times. They allege that he denied income in the form of up to $30 million for counties and cities that could have used it.  

They said that they had been fighting for the slot machines in the courts for years and that the governor had told them that there were no more slot machines available. They said that his interpretation of the slot machine law was erroneous and the judge that ruled for the tribes agreed. He said that the state needed to give the tribes 10,549 more slot machines.