{"id":294289,"date":"2023-10-17T14:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T19:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=294289"},"modified":"2023-10-18T21:37:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:37:27","slug":"anti-gambling-group-adds-voice-to-florida-sports-betting-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/anti-gambling-group-adds-voice-to-florida-sports-betting-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Gambling Group Adds Voice to Florida Sports Betting Case\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The group behind a Florida constitutional amendment to limit gambling says the state\u2019s sports betting deal with the Seminole tribe violates the will of the voters.<\/p>\n

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Floridians opposed to further gaming expansion make their opinions heard outside the Florida Capitol in May 2021. A Florida casino opposition group is supporting an effort to overturn the Seminole Tribe’s 2021 compact in the Florida Supreme Court. (Image: Florida Phoenix<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No Casinos, Inc., which has fought gambling expansion for decades, filed a brief in litigation this week before the Florida Supreme Court. It seeks to invalidate the tribal gaming compact that would give the Tribe a monopoly on mobile and retail sportsbooks in the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n

The group wrote a constitutional amendment to ban the expansion of casino gambling without explicit approval by voters. In 2018, the group led a successful campaign to get that language added to the Florida constitution, with support from 71% of voters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three years later, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe, allowing it to expand its casino offerings and to begin taking sports bets. The compact would have let the Tribe begin accepting bets online, so long as the sportsbook servers were located on tribal land.<\/p>\n

The gaming compact \u201cviolates the text, spirit, and public policy\u201d behind that amendment,”<\/strong> No Casinos wrote in its amicus brief<\/a> in the case. No Casinos is lending its support to opponents led by pari-mutuel operators West Flagler Associates who are asking the Florida Supreme Court to invalidate that compact and implementing laws enacted by the state legislature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No Casinos’ intervention is the latest move in a years-long fight that has left Florida, one of the largest states in the U.S., without a legal sports betting regime.<\/p>\n

Multipronged Legal Fight<\/b><\/h2>\n

Opponents led by pari-mutuel operators West Flagler Associates have spent the intervening years fighting the gaming compact in federal court on the grounds that allowing online betting violates the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act\u2019s prohibition of off-reservation gaming.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court last week blocked the compact<\/a> from taking effect while it prepares to consider its opponents\u2019 request to take up the case.<\/p>\n

Chief Justice John Roberts placed a stay on an earlier ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington, DC, Circuit, which had declined to rehear<\/a> the case.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Legal sports betting has been unavailable in Florida since a federal court first blocked the gaming compact<\/a> in November 2021.<\/p>\n

In its brief filed in state court this week, No Casinos points out that federal courts have side-stepped the question of whether the \u201chub and spoke\u201d model envisioned by the compact is suitable under state law.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the DC Circuit explained that state law is critical to the question of whether the parties to the Compact could lawfully \u2018deem\u2019 sports betting throughout Florida to be occurring on Indian land,\u201d No Casinos wrote. \u201cThus, the court explicitly left it to this State\u2019s courts to say what Florida law means, and how that affects the Compact.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No Casinos says it is up to the state supreme court to declare that the governor and legislature cannot authorize off-reservation gaming of the type the compact would allow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Compact and statutes that perpetuate and endorse the notion that \u2018Indian lands\u2019 exist wherever a mobile phone with a gambling app exists is a blatant attempt to legislate in an area that is, in fact, outside the authority of the Governor or the legislature,\u201d No Casinos wrote.<\/p>\n

Tribe Sits Out SCOTUS Case<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Seminole Tribe this week told the U.S. Supreme Court that it doesn’t plan to file a response in the case. West Flagler\u2019s suit names the Department of Interior, which oversees Tribal gaming, as the defendant, and the case seeks to invalidate the Interior Secretary\u2019s tacit approval of the underlying Florida compact.<\/p>\n

In a letter to the court, the Tribe\u2019s lawyers outlined its previous efforts to intervene on sovereign immunity grounds. It also covered the D.C. Circuit\u2019s denial of those efforts on the grounds that it was upholding the underlying compact.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFor these reasons, the Tribe does not intend to file a response to the stay application,\u201d the letter read. \u201cHowever, the Tribe would gladly file a response should the Court desire one from the Tribe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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