SEATTLE (AP) – A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday is seeking to get a bigger cut of casino revenue. The Seattle Times reports the lawsuit, filed by Maverick Gaming LLC, which owns 19 of 44 licensed card rooms in the state, claims Washington state officials favored Native American casinos on the basis of race and ancestry creating a ‘”discriminatory tribal gaming monopoly” over sports betting and other types of gambling. The suit is asking to invalidate the agreements that led to sports books being offered by those tribes and to effectively put sports gambling within Washington on hold.
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