California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians

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California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 9, 1986 Decided February 25, 1987
Full case name	California, et al. v. Cabazon band of Mission Indians, et al.
Citations	480 U.S. 202 (more) 107 S. Ct. 1083; 94 L. Ed. 2d 244; 55 U.S.L.W. 4225
Case history
Prior	783 F.2d 900 (9th Cir. 1986) (affirmed and remanded)
Holding
Indian reservations may not engage in a form of gaming when that form is illegal in the state; conversely, Indian reservations may engage in a form of gaming when that form is legal in the state.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · John P. Stevens Sandra Day O'Connor · Antonin Scalia
Case opinions
Majority	White, joined by Rehnquist, Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Powell
Dissent	Stevens, joined by O'Connor, Scalia
Laws applied
18 U.S.C. § 1151; 28 U.S.C.S. § 1162
Superseded by
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (1988)

California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, 480 U.S. 202 (1987), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the development of Native American gaming. The Supreme Court's decision effectively overturned the existing laws restricting gaming/gambling on U.S. Indian reservations.