Whether it is otherwise lawful for a patron to place bets from non-tribal land within Florida may be a question for that state\u2019s courts, but it is not the subject of this litigation and not for us to decide,\u201d<\/strong> federal appeals-court Judge Robert Wilkins wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThat state case is pending and a ruling is expected sometime next year. But in this week\u2019s filing, West Flagler complained the Tribe will profit from the app in the interim.<\/p>\n
\u201c[The] Tribe will apparently continue with its off-reservation sports betting operations in contravention of the Florida Constitution … potentially raking in millions of dollars in sports bets that this court may eventually find were authorized in contravention of the Florida Constitution and derogation of the people’s right to decide on the expansion of casino gambling,” West Flagler wrote in the filing.<\/p>\n
Where Does an Online Bet Take Place?<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe sports betting app went live to a limited number of gamblers on Tuesday after a two-year hiatus. Only those who signed up for the app prior to its suspension in November 2021 have access, along with existing members of the tribe\u2019s land-based casino loyalty program.<\/p>\n
The Tribe and the State of Florida maintain that the app doesn’t violate IGRA because its servers are based on Tribal land, which is where the bets are processed.<\/p>\n
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This is also the state\u2019s defense against West Flagler\u2019s claim that the compact violates a 2018 amendment to the Florida Constitution, which requires that all proposed casino gaming expansion in the state be put to a public vote. The state argues that this applies only to commercial sports betting outside of a Tribal compact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cThe governor and legislature\u2019s fiction does not change the reality that the governor and legislature are seeking to authorize gambling that takes place off Indian lands,\u201d the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
West Flagler Associates, the pari-mutuel operator battling the Seminole sports betting monopoly in Florida, has petitioned the State Supreme Court to pull the plug on the tribe\u2019s mobile sportsbook. The Seminoles relaunched the app earlier this week. That\u2019s after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by West Flagler\u2019s lawyers to block the 2021 gaming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":298094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074,18456],"tags":[88718,83129,87808],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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