In a ruling issued early in the afternoon of Wednesday (13), the minister requested that the president of the Supreme Court, Luís Roberto Barroso, schedule a date for the referendum of the decision by the other ministers, which was done immediately.
The trial, unlike others that are held in a virtual plenary session, will last only 1 day (from 11 am to 11:59 pm). The lawyers working on the case will have until 10:59 am to present their statements. According to Barroso, the request was accepted due to the “well-founded exceptionality of the case.”
Fux is the rapporteur for lawsuits that question the law that regulated sports betting. In his decision, the minister also ordered that the rules set forth in an ordinance of the Ministry of Finance that prohibit advertising and publicity of betting sites aimed at children and adolescents be applied immediately.
The minister's decision was made in two lawsuits, filed by the National Confederation of Commerce of Goods, Services and Tourism and by the Solidariedade party. The CNC cited the economic, social and health impacts on bettors and asked the STF to declare the law regulating ‘Bets’ – as operators are called in Brazil - unconstitutional.
The Attorney General's Office also filed a lawsuit questioning and requesting the law's repeal. Given the complexity of the issue, the minister scheduled two public hearings, which took place this week, to discuss the effects of betting.
Fux stated in the decision that the debates in the hearings presented evidence of “the relevant and harmful impacts” of advertising betting on the mental health of children and adolescents and of betting on the family budgets of people who benefit from social and welfare programs.
“It is clear that the current scenario of evidently insufficient protection, with immediate harmful effects, especially on children, adolescents and on the family budgets of beneficiaries of welfare programs, constitutes a manifest periculum in mora, which must be immediately removed, under penalty of the non-application of rules already enacted, until January 2025, worsening the already critical current situation,” wrote Fux.
Source: CNN
