The president of the Court, Luís Roberto Barroso, had called an extraordinary session of the virtual plenary to judge the case at Fux's request, setting the start of the meeting for 11 am. Due to two bomb attacks early in the evening of this Wednesday (13), in the parking lot of the Chamber of Deputies and in front of the headquarters of the STF, in Praça dos 3 Poderes, the Court will be closed at least until noon.
In a ruling early in the afternoon of this 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. According to Barroso, the request was accepted due to the “well-founded exceptionality of the case.”
Fux is the rapporteur of actions that question the law that regulated sports betting. In his decision, the minister also ordered that the rules set out in a Ministry of Finance ordinance that prohibits advertising and publicity for 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 the Solidariedade party. The CNC cited the economic, social and health impacts on gamblers and requested that the STF declare the law regulating betting unconstitutional.
The Attorney General's Office also filed a lawsuit questioning and requesting that the law be overturned. 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 betting advertising 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 deleterious 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 issued, until January 2025, worsening the already critical current situation,” wrote Fux.
Source: GMB
