“Especially with last week’s announcement that was so careful to only focus on what the compact allowed that was not the subject of the lawsuit.
“I’m stunned,” Bob Jarvis, a gambling expert and law professor at Nova Southeastern University, told the Sun Sentinel Tuesday morning following news of the app’s launch. The launch comes as a surprise move in the course of the tribe’s legal battles and to Florida’s gamblers and gambling law experts, only a week after the tribe publicly announced the return of in-person sports betting but said nothing about betting online. The Seminole Tribe relaunched its mobile sports betting app Tuesday in a “limited” fashion, spokespeople confirmed, despite two ongoing lawsuits that challenge the practice and the gaming compact between the tribe and the state.
