Seminole Tribe v. Butterworth was a 1981 court case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. It allowed the Seminole Tribe of Florida to conduct a gaming enterprise in Florida, and was a major U.S. court case protecting Indian gaming, and helped pave the way for Indian gaming, although it brought up the issue of implicit divestiture a judicial issue concerning the rights of indigenous sovereignty within the United States federal trust.
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