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Seminole Tribe Sues DraftKings, Names CEO Personally Under Florida’s RICO Act

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THE UNMITIGATED GALL.

Seminole Tribe of Florida v. DraftKings, Inc., Jason Robins, and GUS III LLC · Case No. CACE-26-016435, Circuit Court, 17th Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Division 18 · Filed October 8, 2026 · Status: Pending

A tribe with roughly 4,000 enrolled members — 4,244 as of the last count (Wikipedia, Seminole Tribe of Florida) — owns Hard Rock International, a global hospitality and casino empire spanning more than 80 countries with an estimated $5–10 billion in annual revenue (Owler estimate; Hard Rock is privately held and doesn’t publish audited financials), and controls every form of sports betting, every banked card game (blackjack, baccarat, roulette, craps), and effectively all slot machine gaming in the state of Florida, with the sole exception of eight licensed pari-mutuel locations in Miami-Dade and Broward counties left over from a 2004 voter referendum. … Read more

The Suwannee River Case: Bundy v. State

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Bundy v. State · 471 So. 2d 9 (Fla. 1985) · No. 59,128 · Decided May 9, 1985

Two months after a twelve-year-old girl went missing from her junior high school, her body was found in the woods along the Suwannee River. It took the state of Florida seven more years, two separate murder trials, and a name that had already become infamous nationwide to close the case for good.

On February 9, 1978, twelve-year-old Kimberly Leach was reported missing from her junior high school in Lake City, Florida. Two months later, after a large-scale search, her partially decomposed body was located in a wooded area near the Suwannee River in Suwannee County. On July 21, 1978, Theodore Robert Bundy was indicted for her murder and kidnapping. … Read more

537 Votes: Gore v. Harris

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Gore v. Harris · 772 So. 2d 1243 (Fla. 2000) · No. SC2000-2431 · Decided December 8, 2000

The Florida Supreme Court ordered every disputed ballot in the state counted by hand. The recount lasted a day and a half before Washington stopped it. … Read more

The Law That Could Not Reach Her: Bush v. Schiavo

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Bush v. Schiavo · 885 So. 2d 321 (Fla. 2004) · No. SC2004-0925 · Decided September 23, 2004

In the fall of 2003, the Florida Legislature passed a law written for one woman. The Florida Supreme Court held that even a legislature has no power to reach into a case already decided and overturn it.

Theresa Marie Schiavo collapsed in the hallway of her St. Petersburg apartment on February 25, 1990. She was twenty-six. Cardiac arrest cut off oxygen to her brain long enough to leave her in what her doctors called a persistent vegetative state — alive, but by every clinical measure, gone. She would not wake up again. … Read more