The constitutional amendment, approved by 71 percent of voters, applies to types of gambling found in casinos and to types of gambling that are considered Class III under federal law. “Sports betting that would take ‘Indian gaming’ off the reservation and into everyone’s hand-held device cannot be squared with the will of the people who voted for Amendment 3, and No Casinos, Inc., would assist the (Supreme) Court in seeing how those policy concerns undergird and support the legal arguments, as set forth in the petition (filed by the pari-mutuel companies),” the motion said.

In Thursday’s motion, No Casinos pointed to longstanding concerns that Florida “not be overrun with gambling, forever changing the appearance, attitude, and atmosphere of Florida, such that gambling becomes as pervasive as palm trees.”

The deal said bets “using a mobile app or other electronic device, shall be deemed to be exclusively conducted by the tribe.” signed the deal, known as a compact, in 2021 and state lawmakers ratified it.Ī “hub-and-spoke” plan in the agreement allowed the Seminoles to accept sports wagers from mobile devices anywhere in the state, with the bets run through servers on tribal land. Ron DeSantis and Seminole Tribe of Florida Chairman Marcellus Osceola, Jr. The pari-mutuel companies West Flagler Associates and Bonita-Fort Myers Corp., allege in a lawsuit filed last month at the Supreme Court that the sports-betting plan violates the constitutional amendment, known as Amendment 3. No Casinos authored and supported a 2018 constitutional amendment that said voters “shall have the exclusive right to decide whether to authorize casino gambling” in the state, according to the group’s motion to file a friend-of-the-court brief.

The group No Casinos, Inc., asked the Supreme Court on Thursday for permission to file a brief backing a legal challenge that two pari-mutuel companies filed against the sports-betting plan. TALLAHASSEE - A group that spearheaded a 2018 ballot measure to make it harder to expand gambling hopes to help sway the Florida Supreme Court to reject a deal that would give the Seminole Tribe control over sports betting throughout the state.

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