Don’t expect a determination in the FL sports betting pillow slip anytime soon. Like, as inwards this year.
On July 8, the US Circuit Margaret Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia River Circuit published the briefing schedule for the Benjamin West Flagler Associates v. Haaland case. That led to US District Judge Dabney Friedrich striking land the amended gaming pack reached betwixt the Seminole Tribe of Everglade State and the DeSantis Administration.
That ruling led to Seminole Gaming suspending its Hard John Rock Sportsbook app inwards early December, a month after it launched as the scoop manipulator inwards Florida.
Friedrich ruled that the US Department of the Interior, led past Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, should experience rejected the powder compact because the online sports betting aspect of it violated the Amerindic Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA).
The Seminole Tribe wasn’t a defendant in the case, but it appealed the ruling, as has the Interior Department. The Seminoles also sought a detain against Friedrich’s order, which would hold allowed the federation of tribes to preserve operating the app. However, Friedrich and the DC Circuit denied the request.
First Briefs Due Next Month
According to the schedule, the Seminole Tribe and the federal regime must put forward their chess opening Jockey shorts by Aug. 17. The feds also have until Oct. 3 to posit an answering brief.
West Flagler and the other plaintiffs in the example must posit their response past Oct. 6. Amicus briefs are filed provided the judicature approves past third-party entities not attached with the case, but who hold an interest. Those briefs typically earmark organizations or individuals to discuss potentiality effectual ramifications of a ruling – such as what the subject impact would live if the courts allowed tribes to extend online gaming statewide through and through a gaming compact.
The federal government and the Seminole Tribe would so experience until Nov. 14 to rebut the Benjamin West Flagler brief.
According to the order, a particular date for viva arguments before a three-judge panel will live proclaimed later.
Daniel Wallach, a noted gaming attorney, said on Twitter this past times week that the appeals court’s schedule way it would non regulation until next year.
Regardless of how the appeals tribunal decides, odds are the losing side of meat inwards the case testament either seek the good DC Circuit or the US Supreme Margaret Court to get hold of upwards the case. That would crowd any last decision inward the case comfortably into 2023, or even beyond that.
Who Challenged the Seminole Gaming Compact
West Flagler Associates operates the Magic City Casino inwards Miami. It and the Bonita Springs Poker Room filed the causa challenging the commendation of the thick inwards federal tribunal finally August.
The II gaming entities claimed that the amended thickset not only when ran heel counter to IGRA, but that it also threatened their businesses. They cited the “hub-and-spoke” understanding included inwards the pack that allowed the Seminole Tribe to partner with pari-mutuel gaming operators, the like Magic City and Bonita Springs. Through the partnership, the pari-mutuel operators would follow allowed to install sports betting kiosks connected to the Hard Rock Sportsbook and invite a part of the kiosks’ revenue.
Magic City and Bonita Springs argued that that organisation would spite their operations if they did not function as “spokes” to Hard Rock. By not beingness capable to proffer sports betting on their own otherwise, they would place upright to turn a loss customers to pari-mutuel operators that were section of the Seminoles network.