SACRAMENTO – Lawyers for DraftKings Inc. and FanDuel Inc. invited state lawmakers Wednesday to enact “reasonable” regulations for daily fantasy sports sites, but they pleaded with leaders to keep the debate over their controversial operations out of California’s courts.
“DraftKings is eager to work with this committee,” Griffin Finan, the company’s counsel for lobbying and government affairs told members of the Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization. “This is a matter of public policy that belongs before the Legislature, not the courts, which lack the benefit of input from constituents and the sort of public dialogue we’re seeing here today.”
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