Originally Posted by
MDawg
The larger issue is whether lifetime trespass bans are even valid. It's hard to get an answer to that, unless the state's statute has something to say directly on point, which it looks like Nevada's now does.
Okay, finally something we can have a reasonable useful discussion about.
I have been arguing for several years now that trespasses are not what they appear to be. I am basing that on a case, I believe involving Jerry's Nugget in North Las Vegas, where a player was arrested after returning after he had been trespassed. The judge ruled that the player had to be given the opportunity to leave again, before being arrested for trespassing
each and every time.
In other words (by my understanding), if a player were to return to a casino after a trespass, they had to remind him he is trespassed and give him the opportunity to leave before he could be arrested. But it is one of those situations where being right isn't enough. The player would likely be arrested by casino personnel and police either not understanding the law or intentionally not complying, and would have to go through the hassle of going to court, maybe spending time in jail before the charges were dropped. So just way more hassle than it is worth, which is what I think this new amended trespass law will amount to.
Just too much hassle. This is were casinos and the industry win, even when they are in the wrong. They just harrass and intimidate. Who wants to go through all that. Better to apply thing and do what you need to do to not be in that situation in the first place than to try to fight it, even when in the right.