MGM Resorts had long sought to prevent the tribes from pursuing their plan to develop a casino in north central Connecticut to protect the tribes' existing casinos - Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun - from competition from MGM Springfield, the Massachusetts casino MGM opened in 2018. None of the parties to the suit would comment on MGM Resorts' withdrawal of it. The state and the tribes were granted intervenor status on the defendants’ side and had joined the Interior Department in seeking the suit's dismissal. Department of the Interior over the department’s approval of state-tribal gaming agreements that facilitated the East Windsor project.

District Court for the District of Columbia, MGM Resorts Global Development and Blue Tarp Redevelopment, another MGM entity, dismissed “without prejudice” their suit against the U.S.

The agreement formed the basis of legislation passed by the legislature and signed into law by the governor. MGM Resorts has dropped a lawsuit over the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes’ plan to develop an East Windsor casino, a project shelved as part of the gaming-expansion agreement negotiated earlier this year between Gov.

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