An appeals court Friday backed the Florida Gaming Control Commission in a dispute about whether regulators could bar cardroom employees from playing poker where they work.
A three-judge panel of the 5th District Court of Appeal upheld a decision by Administrative Law Judge G.W. Chisenhall in a case filed by Central Florida’s Oxford Downs and employee Darold Donnelly.
The case alleged that regulators overstepped their legal authority with a rule that prevented licensed cardroom employees from playing games in the gambling facilities where they work.
But Chisenhall and the appeals court panel disagreed.