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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody wants the state Supreme Court to issue an opinion about the validity of a proposed constitutional amendment that would expand gambling, even though he measure has not qualified for the November ballot.

What was once a niche sector in Las Vegas has grown into a national mega-business that people can enjoy from their living rooms — and the advertising dollars have followed.

A federal judge said justifying online sports betting because it used servers on tribal land was a "fiction." Now the federal government says it will appeal the ruling.

Gambling on sports is off the table in Florida, at least for now, after the Seminole Tribe suspended its online sports-betting operations Saturday morning.

The legality of sports betting in Florida remained uncertain Wednesday, as the Seminole Tribe escalated efforts to keep intact a deal giving it control over online sports wagering following a judge’s ruling that the agreement violates federal law.

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The emergency motion comes after a U.S. district judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that the gambling deal between the state and the tribe violated federal law.

In denying the stay, Friedrich wrote, in part, that a stay during an appeal is an “extraordinary remedy” and that the tribe did not meet legal tests to justify it.

The Seminole Tribe of Florida is appealing a federal judge's decision to block its deal with the state to expand gambling and online sports betting throughout Florida.

Although the compact deems sports betting to occur at the location of the tribe’s servers, the judge wrote that “this court cannot accept that fiction.”

The gambling deal includes allowing people throughout the state to use mobile devices to place sports bets that are run through computer servers on tribal property. But a key issue in the lawsuit is whether the IGRA allows the Seminoles to accept bets that are placed off tribal property.

Gov. Ron DeSantis opened the door to sports betting in Florida - viewed as one of the nation’s most-fertile grounds for digital wagering - through a deal signed with tribe Chairman Marcelus Osceola Jr.