Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily placed a hold on a lower court ruling affirming the legality of the multibillion-dollar gaming agreement between the Seminole Tribe and the state of Florida.

Roberts issued the order, which stays a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that green-lighted the Florida sports-betting compact, on Oct. 12, but a Florida professor specializing in gaming law said he doesn’t expect the high court to rule on the merits of the case.

“It’s absolutely meaningless,” Robert Jarvis, a professor of law at Nova Southeastern University, told the Florida Record. “It has absolutely no impact at all. … At the end of the day this is all a lot of noise about nothing.”