Florida Sports Betting Must Stop Says Judge

Florida sports betting has been thrown into turmoil following the rejection by District Judge that the Seminole Tribe MUST cease all activities in relation to sports betting until an appeal is heard.

Both the state of Florida and the tribe had requested a stay until the appeal but U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich who made the ruling that the new compact violated the current federal ruling on tribal gambling said that the decision must be followed and cannot continue sports betting until the appeal has been heard and a ruling passed.

But according to local reports the sports betting app is still working and violating the judgement, in the judges response to the request she said that the, “tribe hadn’t shown that it would be irreparably harmed if a stay were not granted.”

In the state and tribes argument they said the servers were located on tribal land and customers used the mobile devices to access them meets the federal arrangement on the rules, the judge said this was pure “fiction” in her first ruling on Monday.

The judge said that the only way and by feral ruling the Tribe and state can legally approve sports betting is by a state-wide referendum, currently this has not taken place.