The Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering issued a license to Hialeah Park that will allow it to operate slot machines at the track. Hialeah is currently operating a 24-day Quarter Horse meet which opened Dec. 3 and runs through Jan. 24, 2011. Hialeah was granted the rights to a slots license in legislation passed earlier this year. A lawsuit challenging that provision was filed by Calder and two other parimutuel facilities in Dade County alleging that Hialeah was not entitled to a slots license under a 2004 state constitutional amendment, which said that only tracks that held a parimutuel license in 2002 and 2003 in Broward and Dade counties could operate casinos in the state. Hialeah last held a Thoroughbred meeting in 2001 and did not run any parimutuel racing at the track since then until it reopened with a Quarter Horse meet last year. On Dec. 16, Judge James Shelfer of the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Leon County issued an order stating that the 2010 law’s provision granting Hialeah the right to a slots license did not conflict with the 2004 constitutional amendment. The decision paved the way for Wednesday’s action by the division granting Hialeah its slots license. Track officials said Hialeah could open its casino with Las Vegas style slot machines as early as November 2011.