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Want more of our free, weekly newsletters in your inbox? Let’s get started. The parimutuels are allowed to take 60 percent of the proceeds from each bet with the tribe receiving the remaining 40 percent.

The compact allows sports bets at six of the tribe’s reservations, but also permits Florida’s existing racetracks and jai-alai frontons to develop their own mobile apps and to conduct off-reservation sports bets if they are chosen by the tribe as its partners. In exchange, the tribe has agreed to guarantee payments to the state of at least $2.5 billion in revenue sharing over the first five years of the 30-year agreement. Under the deal signed by DeSantis and approved by the Florida Legislature, anyone in Florida over age 21 can start placing and collecting online wagers on sporting events “via the internet (or) web application” from anywhere in Florida beginning on Oct. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature violated federal Indian gaming law and the federal Wire Act “by authorizing gambling outside of Indian lands and by allowing the use of the Internet or interstate payment transmissions where sports betting is illegal.”įinally, the lawsuit asks the court to block the compact, claiming that it violates the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act because by allowing the tribe to enter into partnerships with parimutuels to handle their sports books, it unlawfully “sought to ‘enrich non-tribal’ interests rather than ‘protect the sovereign rights and interests of Native American Tribes and Peoples.’ ' In addition, the lawsuit states that Gov.

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