Judge delivers double blow to sports betting in Florida

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On Wednesday night, a U.S. District Court Judge denied an appeal by the Seminole Tribe to stay a previous ruling that said the gambling deal violated a federal law that requires gaming occur only on tribal lands.

On Monday, the judge called it "fiction" that the compact jives with a federal law that requires gambling occur on tribal lands. The state had argued it was OK because the servers that accept the bets are on tribal lands, even though the gamblers themselves aren't.

Wednesday, the same judge refused to stay the ruling because "the tribe had not shown a substantial likelihood of success on the merits."

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