Legal Developments

Two pari-mutuel facilities amended an existing lawsuit and filed a second legal challenge against the 30-year compact signed between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Governor Ron DeSantis. The company behind the venues amended its existing Florida complaint and filed a federal lawsuit in Washington D.C. just two weeks after the United States Department of…

Spurred on by the repeal of PASPA, legalized sports betting has rapidly spread across the country. Wave 1 saw more than a dozen states legalize the activity, and as Wave 2 winds down, the current count of legal sports betting states stands at 30 (plus the District of Columbia). Two other states with active legislation…

DraftKings and investment research firm Hindenburg Research are at odds after a report surfaced questioning technology provider SBTech, an entity that merged with DraftKings in 2020 when the company went public. Hindenburg claims that half of SBTech’s revenues came from markets where gambling is illegal.

The Federal Department of the Interior neither approved nor disapporved a compact agreement between the Seminole Tribe and the state of Florida that would, among other things, bring retail and mobile sports betting to the Sunshine State. That means the compact goes into effect by default.

Sports Betting was once the exclusive domain of Nevada, but the repeal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in May 2018 by the Supreme Court ushered in a new era of US sports betting. And a lot has changed.

After hours of delays and backroom wrangling, a bill legalizing sports betting passed the Massachusetts House of Representatives by what turned out to be an anticlimactic margin of 156-3.

One of the biggest problems hampering Massachusetts sports betting legislative efforts was logistics. The state was staring at nearly two dozen proposals and appeared to be suffering from paralysis by analysis based on the last committee hearing. That paralysis seems to be over.

On Friday, the New York State Gaming Commission revealed the details that will begin the request for proposal process that will ultimately lead to mobile sports betting in the Empire State. The NYSGC also included draft regulations with the RFA bid details.

A new effort is afoot to remove barriers preventing federally recognized tribes from offering online gambling products. According to the title of the new bill, HR 4308, it seeks “to remove Federal barriers regarding the offering of mobile wager son Indian lands when the applicable State and Indian Tribe have reached an agreement.”  

Sports betting appears to be coming to Florida one way or another. The newest possibility for such an occurrence? An open market with the ability to wager on any sport from anywhere within the state. The development comes as DraftKings and FanDuel have come together alongside Florida Education Champions, a political action committee, to file…