April 21, 2021, 10:14 am ·
The Louisiana Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday narrowly passed a bill that would allow a locally licensed company to transfer its existing Bossier City casino license to St. Tammany Parish where it wants to develop a new casino.
The measure needs approval from state lawmakers and the Louisiana Gaming Control Board as well as from parish voters.
Pacific Peninsula Entertainment, or P2E as the company is known, has unveiled plans to relocate its casino license and
develop a new gambling facility in Slidell, a city on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish.
The operator purchased DiamondJacks Casino in Bossier City six years ago. It announced in May 2020 that the venue would close permanently
It began as a mechanism to control the time and traffic of cases before the Court, but the Roberts Court has come to use it as a way to rule on thorny constitutional questions without actually hearing a case.