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What are the odds that SCOTUS will have to decide the constitutionality of Nevada’s monopoly on sports gambling?
November 03, 2014 | By JONATHAN WOOD
Last term, the Supreme Court considered a petition to hear New Jersey’s challenge to a federal law that forbids any state from liberalizing its sports gambling laws except Nevada. PLF and Cato submitted an amicus brief asking the Court to take up the case to decide an important constitutional question: can Congress arbitrarily discriminate am ...
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Can Congress grant a state a monopoly over an industry at the expense of the rest of the nation?
March 17, 2014 | By JONATHAN WOOD
Today, PLF and the Cato Institute filed this brief supporting New Jersey’s cert. petition in its challenge to the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA)’s grant to Nevada of a monopoly on sports-gambling. This federal statute was adopted in 1992 and forbids any state that didn’t already have legalized sports-gamb ...