Nevada Touts In A Bout

The United States Supreme Court (the Supreme Court) recently ended a nearly six-year legal battle regarding the constitutionality of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). In Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 138 S. Ct. 1461 (2018), the Supreme Court, with Justice Alito authoring the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Kennedy, Thomas, Kagan and Gorsuch, held that PASPA violated the 10th Amendment's "anti-commandeering" principle, which provides that if the Constitution does not give power to the federal government or take power away from the states, that power is reserved for the states or the people themselves.

This decision ushered in the next gold rush for the U.S. gaming industry. Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia have legalized sports betting and are taking bets. Arkansas and New York¹ have legalized sports betting but have not yet started taking