Lawsuit against Nassau County’s casino has been sent back to lower court

Lawsuit against Nassau County’s casino has been sent back to lower court

Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (AP Photo/Frank Eltman)

The state’s second-highest court reversed a lower-court ruling that supported Hofstra University’s lawsuit to keep Nassau County from leasing the Coliseum site to a Las Vegas Sands.

It’s unclear how much the plan of building a full-fledged casino on the site..

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said “We are grateful that the Appellate Division reversed what we believed was an arbitrary, capricious, and unjust decision of the lower court.”