If you hadn’t seen it (and have some spare time), it’s instructive to review the massive-in-length complaint filed by the plaintiff, City of Boston, versus the state’s gambling commission and its officials.  You can access it by an internet search using the case’s filing number: 15-0012-BLS2.  It’s an impressive piece of pleading, setting out alleged flaws in the awarding of a casino license. Even if you’re not in Massachusetts, the pleading gives one a feel for what kinds of allegations these disputes involve–ones you may wish to raise when similar apparent chicanery in awarding of casino privileges can be proved where you reside.

From recent press coverage of the case, it seems Boston’s mayor has been meeting with Wynn commercial gambling personnel to perhaps discuss settlement.  One wishes the discussion would turn from dollars to policy.  Putting a commercial-gambling-cancerous outpost at the edge of Boston, one designed to drain resources from the already-poor (for example), seems like policy that a responsible administration would oppose entirely, rather than seek a financial settlement about.