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.
Orlando-based 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.
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 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 and would hurt their businesses.
