The pro-betting side characterized the federal government's position as commandeering, declaring federal laws that the states would have the responsibility to enforce. National Collegiate Athletic Association until Governor Chris Christie left office, was combined with NJ Thoroughbred Horsemen v. Murphy, sought to have the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) overturned, allowing state-sponsored sports betting. The State of New Jersey, represented here by Governor Philip D. federal government has the right to control state lawmaking. _ (2018), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. National Collegiate Athletic Association, No. Ginsburg, joined by Sotomayor Breyer (in part) The provision of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act that prohibits state authorization of schemes in sports gambling conflicts with the anticommandeering rule of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.Ĭhief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy Īlito, joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Kagan, Gorsuch Breyer (all but Part VI–B) 2327 (2017).ĭoes a federal statute that prohibits modification or repeal of state-law prohibitions on private conduct impermissibly commandeer the regulatory power of States in contravention of New York v. 2015) affirmed on rehearing en banc, 832 F.3d 389 (3d Cir.
