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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Online sports betting successful Florida is connected clasp aft a national territory tribunal justice ruled Monday the state’s 2021 Gaming Compact with the Seminole Tribe is invalid.

The Seminole gaming pact was signed successful April, approved by lawmakers successful May and allowed to spell into effect by the Department of the Interior erstwhile the 45-day reappraisal play expired without a comment. But the compact was immediately met with ineligible challenges.

Under the alleged “hub-and-spoke design,” the people could instrumentality bets from immoderate telephone anyplace nether the mentation that it was ineligible due to the fact that the servers are located connected tribal lands. When asked astir the determination this greeting successful Broward County, Gov. Ron DeSantis said helium thought the determination would beryllium appealed.

“We besides knew erstwhile you bash hub and spoke, it was an unsettled ineligible issue. We structured the compact truthful the compact was preserved for the casinos and different stuff. So we’re going to beryllium getting revenue. Obviously we’ll beryllium getting little gross from sports betting if we are not capable to bash hub-and-spoke. But I would ideate that’s going to beryllium appealed,” DeSantis said during a quality league successful Ft. Lauderdale.

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But an entreaty is problematic. The people was not a enactment to the suit and neither is the state. Only the Department of Interior tin appeal. And due to the fact that it wasn’t briefed beforehand, the authorities whitethorn not get immoderate gross since the compact signed successful 2010 is present successful effect.

The governor’s bureau said Tuesday the ineligible squad is trying to fig retired its options.

The compact had allowed sports betting starting October 15, arsenic good arsenic craps and roulette, nary of which were antecedently ineligible successful Florida.

Florida would perchance person $20 cardinal implicit the adjacent 30 years nether the agreement.

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