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Since the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider a challenge to the Seminole Tribe’s negotiated gambling arrangement with the state, online sports betting in Florida is here to stay for the time being, and it is owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The Seminole Tribe and the state will benefit annually from the tribe’s monopoly on internet sports betting, which will bring in hundreds of millions of dollars. Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature have primarily used this money for environmental conservation initiatives.
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“The Seminole Tribe of Florida applauds today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to decline consideration of the case involving the Tribe’s Gaming Compact with the State of Florida,” Seminole Tribe of Florida spokesperson Gary Bitner, said to the media. “It means members of the Seminole Tribe and all Floridians can count on a bright future made possible by the Compact.”
West Flagler Associates and Bonita-Fort Myers Corp., two gambling corporations, had contested the state’s gambling deal with the tribe, claiming it was in violation of the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and that gaming had to take place on tribal property. The contested 2021 agreement permits Floridians to place bets from anywhere in the state, even though the servers and other technological devices collecting the wagers would be located on tribal territories.
The firms petitioned the Florida Supreme Court last year in addition to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case was dismissed by Florida’s highest court in March due to a procedural error. The firms might be able to resubmit their appeal in a manner that brings them back before the court.
The 2021 agreement permitted the Seminole to expand its gaming offerings to include live sports betting, craps, and roulette at its six Florida casinos in addition to online sports betting. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood and the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa are its two largest casinos. Two other casinos are in Broward County: the Seminole Classic Casino in Hollywood and the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek.
Floridians can use the Hard Rock Bet website and mobile application to wager on sports online. The games covered by the deal didn’t start in earnest until December of last year, despite the fact that it was signed three years earlier. (Online sports betting had been accessible in late 2021 for a short while.) According to the terms of the agreement, the tribe started paying the state every month in January. The most recent payment gave the state more than $357 million throughout the course of the six-month period from December through May.
Prioritizing the environment with a large portion of the deal funds was Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, a Republican from Naples. This year’s law, which DeSantis signed in early April, made that goal a reality. The bill, SB 1638, allocated $379 million from the revenue-sharing agreement for environmental projects. Those projects include $100 million for land acquisition in the Florida Wildlife Corridor, $100 million for the management of uplands, non-wetlands and the removal of invasive species, $100 million for the Resilient Florida Grant Program to guard Florida communities against storm damage and flooding and $79 million for the state’s Water Quality Improvement Grant Program.Check out the latest sports betting odds at Caesars.
