Harrah's Not Ready To Call It Quits, Yet

23 Sep 2005

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – As reported by the Providence Journal: "Despite a second major legal setback in its effort to break into the Rhode Island gambling market with a West Warwick casino, Harrah's Entertainment "won't say uncle," according to one of its top executives.

"That was the word earlier this week from Jan Jones, the former Las Vegas mayor who has been the face of Harrah's in Rhode Island, since the mega-casino company put its money behind the Narragansett Indians' casino drive.

"Commenting for the first time on the advisory opinion, issued by the state Supreme Court on Monday, Jones said: 'We are reading the Supreme Court decision and making determinations on which way we want to go, but at this moment we don't see this as an endgame necessarily at all.'

"The advisory opinion marked the second time the high court has declared the legislation setting tax rates and other terms for the proposed West Warwick casino unconstitutional…"

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