Two-pronged New Jersey assault on PASPA?
News on 14 Feb 2013
News on 14 Feb 2013
Two New Jersey Congressmen, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr of the Democrats, and Republican Representative Frank LoBiondo have re-introduced bills challenging or amending the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act 1992 in separate moves that could be tied to the current New Jersey attempt to fire up intrastate sports betting.
The PASPA restricts sports betting to just four US states and is now under pressure from states like New Jersey, which wants to expand its gambling offering to keep Atlantic City viable.
The two Congressmen were unsuccessful last year in getting their bills through.
Pallone’s bill seeks to immediately add New Jersey to the four states where sports betting in permitted under the federal law, whilst LoBiondo proposes a three-year window during which other US states can consider applying to the federal government for permission to offer sports betting.
Today (Thursday February 14) will see Judge Michael Shipp, sitting in Trenton, New Jersey, listening to oral evidence from the national sports leagues and the US Department of Justice, both of which oppose New Jersey’s law legalising sports betting in the Garden State .
