Florida’s state government and the Seminole Tribe have asked a federal court to delay a trial over the tribe’s ability to offer blackjack at its casinos.

On Wednesday, attorneys for both the tribe and the state asked a federal judge in Tallahassee to delay the trial, which had been scheduled for two weeks in July. Both parties claim they need more time to interview potential witnesses and are requesting the trial be put off until October.

Clearly, both parties appear to have assumed that the state legislature would approve the new $3b gaming compact the tribe concluded with Gov. Rick Scott last December, an action that would have rendered a trial unnecessary. But legislators’ failure to satisfy all the state’s various gambling stakeholders means there will be no new compact approved until 2017 (at the earliest) and here we are.

The previous compact expired last July, and with it went the tribe’s exclusive right to house-banked card games at its casinos. The state filed suit to force the tribe to stop offering blackjack and other games but the tribe filed its own lawsuit alleging that the state had violated the compact’s terms by allowing state racetracks to offer electronic versions of these games.