Whether IGRA authorizes the approval of a compact that purports to allow for an online sports gambling monopoly throughout the state and off Indian lands

QUESTIONS PRESENTED The Florida Constitution prohibits casino gambling, including sports gambling, absent a citizen’s initiative—unless it occurs “on tribal lands” pursuant to a compact between the State and an Indian tribe that has been approved under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (“IGRA”). In April 2021, Florida and the Seminole Tribe executed a Compact that, among other things, provides for the Tribe to offer sports betting over the internet to people located anywhere in Florida, including locations that are not on tribal lands, by “deeming” online sports bets placed off tribal lands to have been made on tribal lands. The Secretary of the Interior allowed that compact to be approved under IGRA, and the D.C. Circuit upheld that approval. The questions presented are: 1. Whether IGRA authorizes the approval of a compact that purports to allow for an online sports gambling monopoly throughout the state and off Indian lands. 2. Whether an IGRA compact violates the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act if it provides for internet sports betting that is unlawful where many of the bets are placed. 3. Whether the Secretary’s approval of a tribalstate compact violates equal protection principles where it provides a specific tribe with a monopoly on online sports gaming off tribal lands, while state law makes that conduct a felony for everyone else.