Tribes from Southern Oregon and Northern California plan to appeal a federal judge’s second ruling last week in favor of a Medford casino.
U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled the tribes — the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, the Karuk Tribe, and Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation — failed to establish how they would be harmed by the Coquille Indian Tribe’s Cedars at Bear Creek casino on South Pacific Highway in south Medford.
In January, the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior approved the Medford casino after more than a decade of legal and bureaucratic efforts by the Coquille tribe.
