Florida Sports Betting App To Repay All Bets Taken
Following the legal wrangling over sports betting in Florida and the decision that the Seminole Tribe are not legally allowed to offer sports betting outside their tribal lands, the question has now been brought up on if the Tribe will have to repay all those bets it has taken prior to the ruling.
At one stage it was thought the Seminole Tribe of Florida was going to buck the order to close its sports betting business in the state but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruling last Friday upheld the previous lower courts decision for the tribe to shutdown the sports betting app while they appeal the original ruling, and so the tribe has now shut down all sports betting activity on their Hard Rock Sportsbook app.
But now the ruling on the compact to allow the Tribe to run sports betting has now been found to be void, although it will be legally challenged the fact is at present the court ruling says that sports betting was not allowed.
To this there is now expected to be legal challenges to the Tribe on returning all those bets accepted via the Hard Rock Sportsbook app. The Tribe launched the app quietly on the 4th November but on the 23rd November the ruling from the court made it illegal to do so.
It is not currently known exactly how much the Tribe has taken in bets but it is now expected that the Tribe will be told to refund all losing bets and any deposits still on the App.
