Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

The Maryland Board of Contract Appeals sanctioned the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency on 28 September 2026 for repeatedly obstructing discovery in the ongoing dispute over the state lottery-operations contract between Scientific Games and Intralot. The Board's sanctions order found that the agency threw up roadblocks to the appellant's right to discovery at every step, and contemporaneous reporting described the agency as sanctioned for repeatedly ignoring orders for records. This is a procedural sanction issued by an administrative appeals tribunal against the regulator in its capacity as a litigant, not an enforcement action against a licensee and not a change to the underlying gambling statute or licensing conditions. The litigation concerns the state's lottery-operations contract, which is reported to expire in May and likely to require extension while the rebid procurement remains contested before the Board. The sanction elevates procedural and vendor-continuity risk around that procurement without altering any licensing or activity-class instrument. No MLGCA enforcement log or regulator bulletin was independently accessed to corroborate the matter beyond press coverage, and the sanction should be read as a litigation-conduct finding rather than a substantive licensing determination.