Casino opponents issue another lawsuit - 2004-03-10
Foes of the Three Rivers Casino project filed their third lawsuit to stop it Tuesday - this one naming the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians as a defendant.
The tribes' contentious casino is under construction on the North Fork of the Siuslaw River close to Florence.
In January, a Lane County judge disregarded People Against a Casino Town's request for a writ of mandamus to command Gov. Ted Kulongoski to invalidate a state-tribal gaming contract, saying it was premature, because all other legal roads had yet to be exhausted.
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