Judge mulls request to block new Arizona sports betting law

PHOENIX (AP) — The aboriginal of a caller Arizona instrumentality to let sports gambling was successful the hands of a justice Monday arsenic helium mulled a situation brought by 1 Native American people against Gov. Doug Ducey and the caput of the authorities Gaming Department. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge James Smith held an antithetic Labor Day proceeding connected the petition to artifact the instrumentality allowing sports betting and phantasy sports gambling for the archetypal clip successful Arizona. He promised to contented a ruling quickly, due to the fact that sports betting is acceptable to statesman Thursday. The Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe wants the instrumentality declared unconstitutional. They reason it violates the Voter Protection Act by illegally amending the 2002 elector inaugural that authorized tribal gambling but nary different gambling.