Baker v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• state law essentially prohibits gambling so it applies to reservation via Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, 18 U.S.C. § 1955 (1976)
• “The test of causation under the FELA is whether the railroad’s negligence played any part, however small, in the injury which is the subject of the suit.”
• “The Supreme Court in [Chicago & North Western ] held that [45 U.S.C. § 152 First] imposed a substantive duty on parties, enforceable by injunctive relief, to exert reasonable efforts during the negotiation process to reach an agreement.”
• “[T]he clean hands issue” concerns “the merits” of the ease under consideration.
• section 1955 applied to Indian operators of Indian country casinos