(The Center Square) — Maine's casino operators are suing the state to block a new law giving the Wabanaki Nations exclusive rights to online gambling, saying it would create "race based monopoly" over the games.

In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, lawyers for Oxford Casino — one of two brick and mortar casinos in the state — allege that Maine's approval of a law authorizing iGaming rights to the state's four federally recognized tribes "deals a gut-wrenching blow" to existing businesses that "have heavily invested in the state and its people.”

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