New Jersey May Need Other States for Sports Betting Challenge

Last week, the latest appeals court refused to hear New Jersey’s sports betting challenge of the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) law. And Governor Chris Christie immediately announced he would take the fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the upper court refuses to hear the case or simply announces that the law is constitutional, New Jersey will have no further recourse and the chance of having the law repealed or amended could be dead forever. The New Jersey Governor along with other legislators believe the state is being wrongly handcuffed by the law…