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Article: Lottery pulls plug on Hot Spot: Two-year legal battle ends with win for city
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- Charleston Gazette
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- September 22, 2005
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Mayor Danny Jones and other city officials celebrated the shutoff
Wednesday afternoon of the video lottery terminals at the Hot Spot in
Kanawha City.
At 4 p.m., computer operators at the state Lottery Commission
pulled the plug on the Hot Spot's 10 terminals, apparently ending a
two-year legal battle involving the city, its zoning board, the
Fraternal Order of the Owls, two Kanawha County circuit judges and
the state Supreme Court.
The city won each step of the way, but the fraternal group was
able to keep the gambling parlor open through a series of stays
granted by circuit judges Tod Kaufman and Irene Berger. Time ran out
Friday, when the last 30-day stay from Berger ...