The Supreme Court has officially denied West Flagler s petition for writ of quo warranto to strip the online sports betting language out of the state’s 2021 gaming compact.
The Court officially West Flagler s petition, citing the relief of what is being asked is beyond the scope of what quo warranto could provide.
Ultimately, the relief that Petitioners seek is beyond what quo warranto provides. We have never used the writ to test the substantive constitutionality of a statute, and we decline Petitioners’ implicit invitation to expand the scope of the writ here. To do so would serve as an affront to an essential feature of quo warranto—that it is used to challenge the authority to exercise a state power rather than the merits of the action, the court wrote in it…