The U.S. Supreme Courtroom late Wednesday agreed to extend the deadline for the U.S. Dept. of the Interior (DOI) to file a reaction in the situation versus West Flagler and Associates (WFA) that could decide the long term of on line sports betting in Florida. U.S. Solicitor Normal Elizabeth Prelogar submitted for the extension Tuesday, citing the “heavy press of earlier assigned scenarios to the lawyers managing this subject.” The original deadline was March 13.
The DOI will now have until finally April 12 to file a reaction to WFA’s short, in which it described the existing circumstance in Florida as “unlawful” and asked the courtroom not make it a design for other U.S. jurisdictions to follow. Florida’s Seminole Tribe has a monopoly on gaming that Gov. Ron DeSantis and the legislature in May 2021 extended to retail and on-line sports activities betting when they permitted the hottest compact.
Validity of compact by itself also in issue
The concern is regardless of whether or not the compact is legitimate, offered that voters in 2018 authorized Modification 3, which demands any enlargement of gaming to go to the voters. In a second lawsuit, WFA is suing DeSantis and the legislature on that place in condition supreme court docket. Florida’s Supreme Courtroom has not but determined if it will listen to that scenario.
WFA submitted its writ of certiorari previous month, and soon after the DOI responds, the SCOTUS will start to look at if it will get the situation. Folks familiar with the workings of the Supreme Courtroom say the odds of the court docket taking the scenario are lower — it takes 100-150 of 7,000 situations its asked to evaluate each year — and it will likely be at minimum a several months soon after the DOI submitting before the courtroom decides if it will just take the circumstance.
In the meantime, the Seminole’s Tough Rock Wager system is dwell in Florida, where people in the point out were able to guess on the Tremendous Bowl for the initial time last thirty day period, and will have their initially option to bet on March Insanity afterwards this thirty day period. The tribe launched on the web athletics betting last November and then opened its brick-and-mortar sportsbooks for betting in December.
