A gambit by the greyhound racing manufacture to have Florida’s forbidding on domestic dog racing stated unconstitutional was rejected tardily last week past a federal appeals court.

In October 2019, a group calling itself “Support Working Animals Inc.” sued Everglade State Gov. Daffo DeSantis, Secretary of State Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel Lee, and State AG Ashley Helen Newington Wills over a 2018 voter-approved ballot valuate that axed commercial greyhound racing inwards the state.

The radical argued that the measure, Amendment 13, amounted to a “taking” of dimension below the Fifth Amendment. That’s because it deprived the greyhound industry of “substantially all economically good or productive employ of their property and proceeds on their investments,” according to the lawsuit.

Plaintiffs also argued the censor violated their equalize tribute rights because the State of Florida continued to reserve betting on Equus caballus racing. Dog racing had been singled come out because it was “politically unpopular,” the case claimed.

Dog’s Chance

In April 2020, Chief US District Judge Mark Alice Malsenior Walker rejected the equal trade protection literary argument because he said the greyhound racing forbiddance did not “involve suspect classes such as race, gender, or subject origin.”

He also ruled that Everglade State had used its police powers to prevent “plaintiffs’ property from being used in a particular proposition style that the State has dictated to live obstinate to the health, morals, or refuge of the community.”

Walker dismissed a subsequent amended complaint on the grounds that the plaintiffs did non make “standing” to sue State AG Moody.

While the panel of appellate judges did not call the constitutional argument, they upheld the dismissal on the same grounds.

The plaintiffs’ tangible problem, as we realize their complaint, is with (the amendment) itself — its existence — and the economic consequences that its passage has visited or will visit on their businesses,” the panel wrote. “None of that, though, appears to be due to any past, present, or potential time to come deal of the attorney general.”

Fade to Gray

Florida was place to 11 of America’s 17 remaining dog tracks when voters overwhelmingly sanctioned the ballot measure inwards Nov 2018. This was largely thanks to a quirky Florida practice of law that required pari-mutuel venues to tender a quota of racing — whether they desired to or non — as a condition of their permit to offering card games.

Amendment 13 allowed the pari-mutuels to “decouple” themselves from Canis familiaris racing and required commercial message racing to follow phased come out completely past January 2021.

Once the mecca of domestic dog racing inwards America, Florida’s net run ran at the Palm Beach Kennel Club on Dec 31, 2020.

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