A pending lawsuit between Churchill Downs, Inc. and the Horseracing Integrity and Security Authority has reached a partial settlement March 24, however points stay about charges assessed by HISA to tracks owned by CDI.
A current HISA administrative ruling demanding CDI make partial fee of charges assessed in 2025 or face a shutdown of its tracks prompted CDI to request a keep of the ruling and to contact the court docket about presumably submitting a brief restraining order. On March 19, following a two-hour listening to in a Louisville, Ky., federal court docket, pending motions have been taken below submission by Decide Benjamin Beaton.
For now, fallout from the instant points has been averted.
“We write to let you already know that there will probably be no want for TRO litigation, because the events have resolved the dispute over the 2025 assessments that gave rise to the second enforcement continuing,” attorneys for CDI Thomas Dupree and HISA Patrik Shah wrote to Beaton Tuesday afternoon. “The pending motions earlier than the Courtroom stay dwell.”
These motions embody a movement to dismiss CDI’s lawsuit filed by HISA in April 2025 and CDI’s June 2025 cross-motion for partial abstract judgment in opposition to HISA.Join BloodHorse Day by day
CDI and the New York Racing Affiliation sued HISA over its charge construction in December 2024, claiming assessments don’t adjust to federal regulation. On April 11, NYRA notified the court docket its claims have been settled, and it was allowed to drop out of the go well with.