A legal battle over a contested $3 million heads-up poker game that involved an Australian poker pro, a Czech casino mogul and too much alcohol could conjure up a decades-old case against a casino formerly belonging to now President Donald Trump.
Back in 1995, a lawsuit against the then Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City was decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which ruled that a gambler could not recover his losses despite being intoxicated during play. The lawsuit, filed in 1993, was against the casino and Trump himself. The court ruling was written by current U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
The litigation and subsequent ruling involved what is known as dram shop liability, which refers to a body of …
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