A Sports Gambling Ban Was Overturned, but Can You Bet on Tonight’s Game?
May 15, 2018 by admin
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“We look forward to working with legislators and policymakers to achieve a regulatory outcome that benefits states and consumers alike while ensuring the integrity of sports,” MGM Resorts International, which operates the Borgata casino in Atlantic City, said in a statement.
Additionally, Eric Houghtaling, a state assemblyman who is working on the state legislation, said that off-track betting windows in New Jersey, known as O.T.B.s, could also potentially take sports bets.
The complications in ushering in sports betting are rooted in the twists and turns of the legalization effort in New Jersey.
In 2011, voters approved a referendum supporting the legalization of sports betting in the state, challenging a 1992 federal law called the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, or Paspa, which prohibited such gambling.
The following year, the state passed a law setting up rules and regulations for casinos and racetracks to handle sports bets. The major sports leagues sued New Jersey, and a federal appeals ruled that New Jersey’s efforts at legalization were violated federal law.
So the state Legislature passed another law in 2014, repealing the 2012 efforts and instead simply eliminating the prohibition on sports betting at casinos, racetracks and former racetracks. This left it to individual venues to create their own regulations. This effort was also struck down by a federal appeals court, before the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
Can I bet online in New Jersey?
Not yet, though the infrastructure already exists.
New Jersey currently allows online gambling on games such as poker, and many Atlantic City casinos offer their own betting apps. So the kind of technology that would likely matter to regulators — geo-fencing to ensure that bets are only placed within the state, protection from hackers and a fair system — is largely in place.
