Right you are about the city of LA, but I'm in Northern CA so everything down there is La-La land
And yes, I'm familiar with the LA city ordinance and the fact that none of the cardrooms are in the city per se.
My point was the subject of that raid was related to a raked game. And yes, a municipality can invoke ordinance prohibiting gaming that isn't prohibited by the state, but I'd really prefer not to discuss legal issues on forums of any kind, that's better off left to professionals in the legal profession within the confines of their places of business.
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Originally Posted by R Deckard Well, first of all, none of the so-called "LA" casinos are in the city Los Angeles (probably illegal). The casinos are in the nearby smaller cities such as Commerce, Bell Gardens, Gardena, and Hawaiian Gardens. So, technically, the LAPD shouldn't care about the financial issues--those casino taxes aren't going to LA city coffers. LA County, maybe. Actually, I recall reading somewhere else on this forum that Los Angeles has a city ordinance that prohibits home poker, raked or not. The debate was whether this ordinance is valid, since it contradicts California state law, which seems to explicitly permit non-raked home poker games. |
