The county also won a temporary order from a Shawnee County District Court judge attaching a lien to Penn's $25 million state gambling "privilege fee" that was due to be refunded to the company.
Penn officials had no comment.
Cherokee County officials claim their formal development agreement with Penn, signed in July 2007, committed the company to building and operating a casino in the county under a 15-year management contract with the state.
The state last month awarded the contract to Penn. But the company on Thursday walked away from the deal, claiming a tribal casino that opened nearby in July posed too much competition in the small marketplace in the state's far southeast corner.
The county seeks damages for the estimated $28.9 million in local gambling tax revenues that it said it will lose over the life of the contract, as well as $24 million in lost property and sales taxes.
| Rick Alm, ralm@kcstar.com
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