Texas Court Ruling on Eight-Liners Triggers Game Room Raids Across the State
A March 17, 2026 Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals ruling has triggered a statewide crackdown on eight-liner game rooms, including police raids in Galveston and Bexar counties and the arrest of a sitting Hitchcock mayor. Small Texas cities are scrambling to ban the machines outright before losing the permit-fee revenue some have come to depend on.