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The first round of MGM Resorts International’s extended legal fight to stop Connecticut from allowing a competing casino in the state ended in a loss for the casino operator.

On Wednesday, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld the Connecticut judge’s dismissal of MGM’s lawsuit on grounds that the casino company had no standing to sue over the 2015 law, which formalized a process for the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribal nations to seek a town willing to host a casino.

MGM’s lawyers, if you recall, headed to New York City in November to stop the tribes from starting the construction of their casinos and keep Connecticut’s gambling money from flowing across state lines to MGM Springfield.