California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, 480 U.S. 202 (1987), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the development of Native American gaming.

Both the bingo parlors and the Cabazon card club were open to the public and frequented predominantly by non-Indians visiting the reservations.

Riverside County additionally sought legal recognition of its ordinances regulating bingo play and prohibiting the operation of poker and other card games.

As such, the authority to regulate gaming activities on tribal lands was found to fall outside those powers granted by the Public Law 280.

What just years before had been a modest and relatively isolated phenomenon of reservation bingo and card games saw steady growth following the Supreme Court decision.