The Oklahoma Supreme Court has reportedly refused a gubernatorial request to revisit its recent decision that invalidated the controversial gambling compacts the state had earlier inked with the Comanche Nation and Otoe-Missouria Tribe.
According to a report from local media, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt lodged the formal appeal last month in an attempt to gain clarification over whether the area of these tribal compacts that had dealt with sports betting could be severed from the remainder of the condemned deals.
The two gambling compacts that Stitt had agreed with the Comanche Nation and Otoe-Missouria Tribe were to have given the federally recognized pair the right to individually build up to three new casinos closer to major metropolitan areas.
The duo was to have moreover been allowed to offer sports betting so long as they agreed to pay a 1.1% state tax on the amounts wagered and hand over a greater share of their net annual gaming revenues in ‘exclusivity fees’.
Oklahoma is home to some 35 casino-operating tribes while reported that the recent invalidation means that the Comanche Nation and Otoe-Missouria Tribe have since reverted to running their aboriginal gambling enterprises under earlier gaming compacts that are not set to expire until the end of 2035.
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