Connecticut asked a federal court to dismiss MGM Resorts’ lawsuit to block  the state’s two tribal casino.

Assistant Attorney General Robert Deichert filed a motion asking U.S. District Judge Alvin Thompson to dismiss MGM Resorts International’s lawsuit filed in August, arguing that MGM has no legal standing to sue, offering a dry legal argument about timing, as well as a juicier suggestion the company fabricated an interest in building its own casino in Connecticut.

According to the motion, MGM’s Massachusetts casino license restricts the company to build other gambling developments within 50 miles, with an exclusion zone that covers north-central Connecticut such as Hartford, Tolland and Windham counties, large portions of Litchfield, New Haven and Middlesex counties and much of New London County.

The state also said that the law passed earlier this year, which MGM argued to have the Mashantucket Pequots and Mohegan, gave the tribes no legal right to develop anything. The legislature actually rejected a request by the tribes, which are trying to maintain market share for their casinos in eastern Connecticut, for authorization for a casino in the I-91 corridor north of Hartford to compete with Springfield.