Alabama: Greenetrack will reopen tonight

Alabama: Greenetrack will reopen tonight

Article brief provided by Alabama Today
  • Brandon Moseley, Alabama Today
October 7, 2022 2:52 PM
  • Brandon Moseley, Alabama Today

Greenetrack will hold a grand re-opening tonight of its Gaming Center. The casino closed in the aftermath of the Alabama Supreme Court decision finding for the state, stripping the “charity bingo” of its non-profit status and ordering Greenetrack to pay $76 million in disputed back taxes.

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Greenetrack is reopening on very shaky legal ground. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that three other casinos in Lowndes and Macon County were illegal gambling halls, not bingo halls as their owners maintain. The state’s highest court remanded the case back to the lower court and ordered those judges to issue orders that those three casinos close within thirty days.