Colorado Division of Gaming<\/a>] suggesting that participation could result in an enforcement action by the State.\u201d<\/p>\nThat echoes a claim made in the Southern Ute Tribe\u2019s initial filing. Additionally, the Tribe had contacted vendors to provide online sports betting, but those vendors were warned by the state. The operators were told they could not operate online betting with the Tribe that went beyond reservation boundaries.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, online sports betting in Colorado was approved by voters in 2019, allowing residents to place wagers within the state. The Tribe claims the state is misinterpreting the 1995 agreement. The State argues that the Tribes can only handle wagers on reservation lands.<\/p>\n
Tribes’ complaint cited the federal court decisions in Florida<\/h2>\n An email from the state to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and a Nevada-based operator was sent out in 2020. Those messages in the court filings highlight the state\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Division recognizes the Tribe\u2019s freedom to govern Tribal sports betting on Tribal lands. However, the Division considers such gaming occurring off Tribal lands but within the state of Colorado, and the facilitation of such gaming, to be illegal,\u201d wrote Dan Hartman, then-director of the Colorado Division of Gaming.<\/p>\n
The Tribes’ complaint argues that\u2019s incorrect, citing the federal court decisions in Florida. Of course, those rulings sided with the Seminole Tribe\u2019s \u201chub-and-spoke\u201d argument. According to the rulings, wagers placed within the state but processed on Tribal lands are still counted as bets on Tribal land.<\/p>\n
Sports wagers in Colorado are subject to a 10% tax, while Tribal gambling is not. Tax revenue is allocated to fund state water projects. Per multiple emails from the lawsuit, the State suggested a compromise agreement whereby wagers placed by gamblers on Tribal land would remain untaxed.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, wagers placed via Tribal sportsbooks in Colorado would be subject to a fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is joining an existing lawsuit filed earlier this year, alleging the state of Colorado is blocking the ability of Tribes to engage in online sports betting, a violation of the terms that govern Tribal gaming in the state. Ute Mountain Ute Tribe wanted its own online sportsbook in Colorado before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":305,"featured_media":1597199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[447607,447316],"tags":[66144,447423,447424,447426],"class_list":["post-1597183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gambling","category-sports-betting","tag-gambling","tag-main-page","tag-news","tag-sports-betting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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