The Majestic Star Casino LLC is contending that the names are way too similar and as a result the alleged impostors are using the name to drive traffic towards online gambling. The Majestic Star Casino is privately owned and based in Las Vegas, and interestingly enough, is the largest black-owned casino operator in the United States and the first and only black-owned casino in Las Vegas Nevada.
This isn’t the first time and it likely won’t be the last time that lawsuits of this nature are filed out of Las Vegas. At the beginning of this year MGM filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court charging that six individuals were operating an online gambling website that infringed on the trademarks of its MGM Grand hotels and casinos. The website was also used to drive traffic towards online gambling.
You hate to state the obvious, but this is what happens when there’s a grey area in regulation as big as the Grand Canyon.