Florida Gov. Bokkos DeSantis is asking the Everglade State Supreme Court for more clip to reply inwards a example seeking to turn over the sports betting monopoly granted to the Seminole Tribe.

In a motion filed Thursday, attorneys for the regulator and tell legislative leaders say they want until Dec. 1 to craft a response to the gambling companies who initiated the proceeding. Led past pari-mutuel operator western United States Flagler Associates, the companies are asking the FL Supreme Margaret Court to vitiate the tribal gaming thick signed by the regulator inwards 2021. The thick allows the tribe to run sportsbooks at its casinos and have wandering sports bets from anyone in the state, so long as the computer servers accepting the wagers are on tribal land.

The asking from the regulator comes terzetto days after a local anti-gambling group, No Casinos Inc., filed its have brief inward back up of the Cicily Isabel Fairfield Flagler petition. DeSantis’ attorneys head out that No Casinos received a 10-day extension to filing cabinet its amicus legal brief and that the courtroom antecedently said that the regime may seek an extension phone as well.

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“Due to the printing press of other matters, counsel does indeed require additional time to fill out the response inwards this case and for client review,” reads the entry from the Everglade State Attorney General’s office.

The brief lists 16 pending cases in province and federal courtroom where filings from the commonwealth are due within the next 2 weeks.

Given that the challenged compact initially went into burden in 2021, and Mae West Flagler only if brought its example to nation court endure month, an additional detain should not hamper the proceedings, the state’s attorneys argued. Dame Rebecca West Flagler only if agreed to a seven-day extension, according to the motion.

The tribunal will make up one's mind inwards the coming years whether to subsidization the motion.

Betting Remains On Hold

Whatever happens inwards the body politic case, effectual sports betting inward Florida testament remain on take hold pending the outcome of a federal legal case.

West Flagler has been fighting the gaming heavyset inwards federal court of justice since its enactment, and the display case has now made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice John the Evangelist Roberts this month stayed a lour lawcourt ruling that would have got allowed the thick to accept effectuate inwards monastic order to yield the high up royal court clip to weigh whether to take the case.

Feds Say State Court Should Decide

The Interior Department, which oversees tribal gaming and is the complainant inwards the federal suit, this calendar week filed its first response inwards the Supreme Margaret Court docket.

The department is responsible for reviewing gaming compacts such as the ane 'tween the Seminoles and Sunshine State to ensure they comply with the American Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

If the department takes no more activeness on submitted gaming compacts within 45 days, they are deemed approved. That’s what happened in 2021 when Everglade State submitted its updated understanding with the tribe. western United States Flagler and its allies say Interior has a responsibleness to abnegate the pack because it allows tribes to go for online bets placed anyplace in the state, non just on tribal land.

Interior said its responsibilities only when stint as far as gaming that does pass on tribal land, and that the off-reservation sports betting pictured past the stocky strike remote of its purview. Essentially those activities were separately authorized by the actions of the governor and state legislative assembly that are at present at publication in the commonwealth supreme court of law proceeding.

The Interior Department said western United States Flagler’s federal vitrine “lacks merit” and is unlikely to follow and that critics of the tribe’s sports betting arranging are break cancelled taking their case to nation courts.

“If the Sunshine State Supreme Court concludes that the Sunshine State Legislature’s authorization of the emplacement of wagers out of doors Amerind lands is not permissible under the Sunshine State Constitution, that would open applicants the relief they seek,” Solicitor General Elizabeth II Prelogar wrote on behalf of the Interior Department. “That pending case provides the appropriate forum to resolve applicants’ claims based on the substance of nation law.”