Iowa high court stops man from collecting casino winnings
February 12, 2010
Iowa: On Friday, February 12, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a man previously banned from a casino cannot collect winnings. Troy Blackford was banned from Prairie Meadows casino in 1996 but won over $9,000 in May of 2006, due to the size of the winnings the casino had to issue a W-2 form immediately, at which point they learned that he had been banned. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the casino saying that the casino, "had the authority to withhold winnings from a person who had been involuntary excluded."[1]
Footnotes
Federal courts:
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Northern District of Iowa, Southern District of Iowa • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Northern District of Iowa, Southern District of Iowa
State courts:
Iowa Supreme Court • Iowa Court of Appeals • Iowa district courts
State resources:
Courts in Iowa • Iowa judicial elections • Judicial selection in Iowa
