Harrah's Ordered Not To Use Customer Base For Kansas Casino

Harrah's Entertainment was excited last week when they were named as the company that would run one of the new casinos in Kansas. The company had beat out several other proposals to win the rights to run the casino.

While that good news was being spread, there was also bad news for Harrah's. The Prairie Band Potawatomi tribe filed a lawsuit against Harrah's, claiming that the company had broken a non-compete clause in their agreement.

Harrah's had run the tribe's casino, but the non-compete clause was for two years after they parted ways. The database was the thing that the tribe was most concerned with.

A Kansas District judge agreed with the tribe at least temporarily. He ordered Harrah's to not use the data base and urged both sides to come to an agreement within the next thirty days.

If no agreement between Harrah's and the tribe occurs within that time frame, the judge warned that he would bring the parties back into court and make a permanent ruling on the dispute.

Harrah's managed the tribe's casino for ten years before they parted ways. The customers from the casino were all imputed into Harrah's database, and now that they are opening a casino near the tribe's, the tribe wants the database not to be used to steal their customers.

September 5, 2008
Posted By April Gardner
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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