The state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe were in court Monday in a fight over the tribe’s blackjack tables.

According to a report from the Associated Press, the nonjury trial before US District Judge Robert Hinkle is predicted to last three days. A ruling would likely come at a later date.

The state wants the tribe to close down its blackjack tables because a 2010 compact between the 2 parties has expired. The tribe remains to be running the games at its Sunshine State casinos as it believes that Florida violated the compact that gave it a casino gambling monopoly. Florida let race tracks have slot machines and offer card games that aren’t house-banked.

Under Florida law, the racinos can’t offer house-banked games, but there has been some way around that rule by allowing a player to behave because the game’s bank on behalf of the home. The light State recently lost a court decision on that matter.

“The entire landscape that was contemplated on the time the compact was negotiated has changed radically,” an attorney for the tribe told the judge.

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