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<br>A sports betting law that was enacted earlier this year in Florida was struck down in federal district court, halting wagering on games in the state.<br> <br>In a decision that was handed down late Monday, Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that Florida's deal to give exclusive sports betting rights to the Seminole Tribe,  [https://divinews.com/wp-includes/pages/rishabh_pant_net_worth__personal_life.html webpage] essentially forming a monopoly on the industry in the state, was ruled to violate federal Indian gaming law.<br> <br>Since Nov.<br><br>1, Florida residents had been allowed to make wagers on a betting app run by the Seminole Tribe. While the server for the betting app was on tribal lands, bettors had been able to place wagers anywhere in the state.<br> <br>"When a federal statute authorizes an activity only at specific locations, parties may not evade that limitation by 'deeming' their activity to occur where it, as a factual matter, does not," Friedrich wrote in her judgment.<br> <br>In 2019, Florida voters decided against sports betting in the state.<br><br>The Seminole Tribe then forged ahead with its own deal through the state legislature in a pact that was [https://www.groundreport.com/?s=approved approved] by the state's department of the interior.<br> <br>"We'll support whatever we can do to validate the compact," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday. "We anticipated this could happen."<br> <br>The terms of the deal required the Seminole Tribe to pay $2.5 billion to the state of Florida over a five-year span to be an exclusive sports wagering operator.<br><br>The deal also allowed the tribe to add craps and roulette to casino operations, but those activities have been halted as well.<br> <br>Sports wagering giants like FanDuel and DraftKings currently are working toward getting voter approval in Florida for mobile sports betting operations in the future.<br> <br>--Field Level Media<br>