Columbus, OH — According to a report from the Thoroughbred Daily News, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) has made clear its intentions to ask the United States Supreme Court to resolve an existing dispute over the authority’s constitutionality.
On Monday (Sept. 16), HISA requested the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit delay issuing a mandate curtailing the authority’s enforcement on the grounds its provisions are unconstitutional and that, by Oct. 16, it intends to ask the nation’s highest court to intervene.
“Pending disposition of a certiorari petition to be filed by Oct. 16, the Court should stay its mandate in full or at least as to operation of the judgment outside the Fifth Circuit,” the authority’s filing stated, a week after the court denied a request for a rehearing to review the Fifth Circuit’s stance.
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