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U.S. Supreme Court poised to announce whether it will take up Florida online-sports-betting case

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U.S. Supreme Court poised to announce whether it will take up Florida online-sports-betting case

U.S. Supreme Court justices gathered privately Thursday to discuss the myriad cases brought before them, seeking to be heard. One on their list: online sports betting in Florida.

The justices may have already made their decision, but the public likely won’t know until this Monday or the following Monday whether the Supreme Court will hear the case, reject it, or reverse a lower court’s ruling that had previously paved the way for online sports betting in Florida. Any decision could have resounding consequences for online sports betting across the state and the rest of the country, possibly even halting it in its tracks.

“The outcome of this disposition, whether it’s to hear it or to not hear it, will have far-reaching repercussions extending beyond Florida’s borders,” said Daniel Wallach, a Hallandale Beach-based attorney and sports betting expert who recently filed an amicus curae brief in the case, asking the Supreme Court to either take it up or reverse it outright.

The challengers bringing the case before the court are known as West Flagler Associates, a group of pari-mutuels seeking to take away the Seminole Tribe’s monopoly on online sports betting in Florida. The monopoly was authorized by a gaming compact between the Tribe and Gov. Ron DeSantis back in 2021 that hinged on the idea that all online sports betting takes place on tribal lands because the servers are located there, the subject of a fierce debate over the last several years.

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