What did a federal appeals court rule on Delaware sports betting?”
A federal appeals court determined that Delaware’s plan to offer sports betting beginning on September 1 violates federal law. The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit determined Monday that Delaware is not exempt from the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, which prohibits sports wagering. State officials believed Delaware was exempt from the law, which grandfathered in states like Nevada that already offered sports wagering. The court had been asked by the country’s major professional sports leagues and the National Collegiate Athletic Association to simply to rule on a temporary order to halt Delaware from offering sports wagering on September 1. But the court went further. “We concluded, as a matter of law, that the Delaware sports lottery, planned to commence September 1, 2009 … is not covered by the exemption,” the court ruled. The court said it will release an opinion later today. The Delaware Lottery planned to offer sports wagering at the st
A sports betting law in Delaware is in violation of a federal prohibition against sports gambling, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The Delaware legislation had been challenged by the NFL, NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball and the NCAA in a lawsuit. Delaware was exempted from the federal ban on sports gambling. But the professional leagues and the NCAA had maintained that the Delaware legislation is illegal because the state was planning to offer single-game betting for the first time. A three-judge panel in Philadelphia made the ruling after hearing arguments from attorneys for both sides for nearly two hours Monday, the Associated Press reported. Read more at the link below.
