In California and a pair of prominent card room operators have filed a lawsuit to challenge the legality of an upcoming statewide referendum that could legalize sports wagering and allow tribal casinos to offer games of roulette and craps.
Hollywood Park Casino Company LLC is responsible for the Hollywood Park Casino property and used an official Monday press release to note that it has been joined in its campaign by Cal-Pac Rancho Cordova LLC, which runs the Parkwest Casino Cordova venue near Sacramento. The duo detailed that they are suing the western jurisdiction’s Secretary of State, Shirley Weber (pictured), in Los Angeles Superior Court so as to get the California Sports Wagering Regulation and Unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act question removed from the November 8 ballot.
Central contention:
“What the sports wagering ballot initiative would really do is surreptitiously destroy competition with California’s card rooms by granting more rights to tribal casinos, including the right to file a stream of lawsuits against card rooms. This is not what the initiative process was designed to do and certainly not what this initiative is advertised to do.”
Prominent proponents:
The California Sports Wagering Regulation and Unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act question is due to be placed before voters in November following a concerted effort from nine of the state’s largest tribal casino operators. These groups, which include the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, Barona Band of Mission Indians, Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, have so far raised and spent an estimated $12.5 million on their campaign to bring legalized sportsbetting to California while Hollywood Park Casino Company LLC divulged that its lawsuit has not yet been allocated an official hearing date. Come from Sports betting site VPbet