Sports Betting Legalized

 States are free to authorize sports betting,

Supreme Court rules

The Supreme Court on Monday opened the door to an unprecedented

expansion of legalized betting on universities and professional sports, and

rejected a federal law banning states from granting such gambling.

The decision said the New Jersey race track would offer sports betting in a

matter of weeks, and some said it could revolutionize spectator sports,

imagining real-time weddings at baseball stadiums as to whether the next

pitch would make a hit or an out.

Casino shares soared, and owners wondered about future profits and new

ways for fans to experience their products.

"This is a new frontier for professional sports," Ted Leonsis, owner of the

Washington Wizards and Capitals, said in a statement. "And teams that don't

take this opportunity will be left behind."

Officially, the NCAA, which governs sports leagues and college sports, was

less celebratory and more concerned - for one reason, about the jumble of

state regulations to be addressed as well as the threat to the integrity of their

sport if the explosion of gambling leads to a scandal.

"The last thing the NCAA wants is to do anything that can lead to another

point-shaving scandal, like what it experienced in 1951," Charles Klottfeld, an

economics and law professor at Duke University, wrote in a statement. He

was referring to the college basketball gambling scandal.

"The college sports business model depends on fans who believe that unpaid

athletes are motivated by the purest competitive motivation."

The court's 6-3 decision abolished the Professional and Amateur Sports

Protection Act (PASPA), which Congress passed in the early 1990s to protect

the integrity of sports, sponsors said. Only Nevada's sports gambling industry

was protected, and the bill said it was illegal for other states to authorize such

gambling.

Judge Samuel A said, "The legalization of sports gambling requires an

important policy choice, but that choice is not something we can make. As it

happens, Alito Jr., a great baseball fan on the court, wrote for the majority.

"Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but states are free to act on

their own if they choose not to."

The majority's logic that Congress may not order states "to enact or

implement federal regulatory programs" could resonate in other areas,

according to Alito. 토토 Immigration law and marijuana regulation were issues

raised in oral arguments.

Judges Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor said the majority of the

courts "wielding an axe" to bring down the law when Meth was able to do the

job.

"There is no doubt that Congress has the power to regulate gambling

nationwide," Justice Ginsburg said. Breyer partly agreed with them, 안전놀이터 but he

also said that Congress was part of the law