Related Story: Speculation over return of legal sports betting in Florida grows after second court ruling “There is somewhat of a chance that either the US Supreme Court or the Florida Supreme Court will decide that these wagers placed by patrons from their mobile phones, is not the equivalent of gaming on Indian lands,” Wallach said. Online sports betting through the Hard Rock SportsBook app wasn’t mentioned in the Tribe’s latest announcement.īut Wallach is betting the relaunch could be just around the corner, despite the fact cases in both federal and state court challenging the Tribe’s ability to offer sports betting online are still ongoing. “The focus is only on the internet,” Wallach said.

Gaming attorney Daniel Wallach said he isn’t surprised by the Tribe’s announcement, as the court battle that threw the compact in legal limbo for the past two years was never about on-reservation gaming in the first place. So, this means we’ll even run a bigger budget surplus, which isn’t a bad thing to do, or we’ll be able to cut taxes in ways we didn’t expect, or we’ll be able to spend money on things we weren’t planning to, but all three of these are positive.

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