US Supreme Court appeal hearing<\/a>, the majority of the nine justices seemed to voice concerns over whether PASPA violates the Constitution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThat’s what New Jersey lawyers are arguing. Interpretations made from the Tenth Amendment have declared that the federal government cannot commandeer states’ laws. New Jersey, after being successfully blocked in court by the NCAA et al, passed a new law that essentially voided PASPA in the Garden State.<\/p>\n
On December 4, the two sides made their cases as to why PASPA should or shouldn’t be repealed. Most reporters in the courtroom felt six of the nine justices seemed probable to rule against PASPA and allow states to dictate their own sports gambling laws.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen PASPA was passed, it afforded immunities to Nevada and three other states that had some form of legalized sports wagering already in place before 1992, the year the bill was passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NCAA President Mark Emmert said this week that the collegiate sporting organization has no plans to embrace the concept of wagering on its athletic outcomes, regardless of whether the US Supreme Court rules the current federal ban, known as PASPA, is unconstitutional. Appearing at the Learfield Intercollegiate Athletics Forum this week in New York City, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":64957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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