§ 1811.Injunction Against Gaming Or Authorization of Gaming

California once issued bonds backed in part by revenue tied to certain tribes' exclusive right to operate gaming under their tribal-state compacts, and Section 1811 protects the value of that exclusivity once those bonds are outstanding. After the bonds specified in Government Code Section 63048.65 are issued, and for as long as they remain outstanding, a tribe with a designated tribal compact can go to court if it reasonably appears the state has violated that tribe's exclusive gaming right under its compact. The remedy is narrow but powerful: the tribe can seek a preliminary and permanent injunction against the competing gaming or its authorization, and the Legislature has already declared that this kind of violation causes irreparable harm that money damages can't fix. No undertaking, the bond a plaintiff usually has to post to get an injunction, is required. Just as important is what the tribe cannot do: no remedy other than an injunction is available against the state or its political subdivisions for this kind of violation, so damages are off the table no matter how the harm is measured.

Because these bonds depend on the compact exclusivity holding steady, the section also builds in fast judicial review. Either party to an injunction action can petition the California Supreme Court directly for a writ of mandate challenging an order that grants or denies a preliminary injunction, bypassing the normal path through the Courts of Appeal. That petition has to be filed within 15 days of notice of the superior court's order, a deadline the section makes clear allows no extension, after which the Supreme Court can issue whatever orders the circumstances call for.