It’s legal to bet on the National Basketball Association playoffs at the casinos in Las Vegas, but not at casinos in Atlantic City. New Jersey wants to change that.
In 2012, the Garden State passed legislation to legalize sports betting at its casinos and racetracks. But the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the four major professional sports leagues claim that a federal law called the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) preempts New Jersey’s law, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has agreed.
