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Judge rejects California tribes’ latest attempt to kill blackjack at cardrooms

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By Ryan Sabalow Verified
| Inland Empire Law Weekly
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s dozens of private gambling halls can continue offering blackjack and other table games after a San Francisco judge ruled last week that Attorney General Rob Bonta overstepped when he tried to ban them. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Darwin ruled that Bonta’s Bureau of Gambling Control didn’t have the legal authority to issue statewide rules severely restricting the games at cardrooms.
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Judge rejects California tribes’ latest attempt to kill blackjack at cardrooms

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By Ryan Sabalow Verified
| Chico News & Review Verified
Tribal casinos allied with Attorney General Rob Bonta seeking to ban blackjack at rival private cardrooms, but a judge ruled Bonta overstepped his authority Protesters gather outside the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel in Sacramento on May 21, 2026 to oppose regulations that would end blackjack-style games at cardrooms across the state.
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Tribal casinos dealing with legal setback on blackjack tables

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By Ryan Sabalow Verified
| KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA) Verified
For years, tribal casinos in California have claimed they have exclusive rights to host blackjack and other Las-Vegas style gambling. They want to keep these games out of the private cardrooms they compete with. And they’ve spent tens of millions of dollars appealing to courts, voters, and the Legislature to do it. Now, tribes are facing yet another defeat, in the wake of a new court ruling last week from a San Francisco judge.
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