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Casino Drink Policies: Limiting Third-Party Liability, Larry D. Strate, Thomas J. A. Jones

Hospitality Review

In their efforts to provide an atmosphere or hospitality to their casino customers, many operators will provide complimentary alcoholic beverage service. This practice is fraught with liability, particularly in venues outside of Nevada. Conscientious operators must take every precaution to mitigate the possibility of lawsuit.

Casino Gambling Is Hot: Gambling Debt Collection Is Hot, Larry D. Strate

Hospitality Review

Gambling on credit, considered a vice by some, is not judicially collectible based upon the Statute of Anne. This common law statute prevents the collection of gambling losses, unless expected by state statute. This article reviews and updates the findings of an unenforceability of gambling debt study conducted in 1989 just prior to the rapid expansion of gambling in the United States.

Advertising Legalized Gambling: A Late Bloomer Under The First Amendment, Larry D. Strate

Hospitality Review

New federal laws and court cases have put a new perspective on the ability of the industry to advertise as it has never been able to do before. With gaming becoming more prevalent, the acceptability of the legal industry is making promotion easier. The author discusses these new influences.

Fast-Food Franchises: An Alternative Menu For Hotel/Casinos, Larry D. Strate, Francis X. Brown

Hospitality Review

In their discussion - Fast-Food Franchises: An Alternative Menu for Hotel/Casinos - by Skip Swerdlow, Assistant Professor of Finance, Larry Strate, Assistant Professor of Business Law, and Francis X. Brown, Assistant Professor of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, their preview reads: Hotel/casino food service operations are adding some non-traditional fare to their daily offerings in the form of fast-food franchises. The authors review aspects of franchising and cite some new Las Vegas food ideas.”

The authors offer that the statewide food and beverage figures, according to the Nevada Gaming Abstract of 1985, exceeded $1.24 billion. Most …