Calder Race Course Files Suit Against Hialeah Park

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Miami’s Calder Race Course and parent company Churchill Downs Inc has filed a lawsuit in the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Tallahassee Florida in an attempt to limited competition.

Hialeah Park is using a provision in a 2010 Florida law that allows them to apply for and operate a casino, if it also holds a Quarter Horse meet during the Florida fiscal year that begins July 1, 2010.

However Calder fears the Hialeah casino will compete with their 1,245 slot machine casino that opened at the race course in January.

The civil suit filed on June 18th asked the court to overturn only the provision that allows the competing casino less than 11 miles away on the grounds that a 2004 state constitutional amendment allows casinos only at pari-mutuel facilities in Miami-Dade and Broward counties that held pari-mutuel events in 2002 and 2003.

Calder’s suit also maintains that the 2010 law’s provision that authorizes a casino at Hialeah is a “special law.” The suit cites a provision of the Florida Constitution that such a special law cannot be passed unless it “is approved by voters” in the area affected.

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