'Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each State is free to act on its own,' the court wrote its opinion. The court ruled in favor of New Jersey and against the NCAA, NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball, capping a nearly six-year legal battle and overturning a federal statute that the sports leagues had adamantly stood by for more than 20 years. Delaware, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia are among the states expected to quickly get into the legal bookmaking game. States that want to offer legal sports betting may now do so, and New Jersey plans to be first. It made Nevada the only state where a person could wager on the results of a single game. The court ruled 6-3 to strike down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, a 1992 law that barred state-authorized sports gambling with some exceptions.
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