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I don't understand law, or the NFL?
In the (NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE - Game Plan of Mission and Values)
section K.3 / Gambling - NFL employees are prohibited from engaging in any of the following gambling-related activities,
Betting on any NFL game or practice, or any other professional (e.g., NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA, USTA), college (e.g., NCAA basketball), or Olympic sport, including but not limited to wagers related to game outcome, statistics, score, or performance of any individual participant;
*The Federal government Does Not Define Fantasy Sports As Gambling.*
Risking money, whatever the amount, on the outcome of the performance of specific players in NFL games does not constitute gambling.
I don't understand this ... on any level?
In the (NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE - Game Plan of Mission and Values)
section K.3 / Gambling - NFL employees are prohibited from engaging in any of the following gambling-related activities,
Betting on any NFL game or practice, or any other professional (e.g., NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA, USTA), college (e.g., NCAA basketball), or Olympic sport, including but not limited to wagers related to game outcome, statistics, score, or performance of any individual participant;
*The Federal government Does Not Define Fantasy Sports As Gambling.*
Risking money, whatever the amount, on the outcome of the performance of specific players in NFL games does not constitute gambling.
I don't understand this ... on any level?
They can drag this shit on forever. The wheels of justice grind on.
By DAVID PORTER
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday granted a request from the four major U.S. professional sports leagues and the NCAA to temporarily stop New Jersey from allowing legalized sports betting.
U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp issued a temporary restraining order after a request by the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, Major League Baseball and the NCAA. He said the leagues have shown that they would be irreparably harmed if the state’s casinos and racetracks were permitted to allow sports betting.
The leagues’ lawsuit against the state to permanently prevent it from allowing sports betting will proceed.
Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed a law on Oct. 17 that effectively repeals the state’s ban on sports wagering and allows it at racetracks and casinos.
“This is a temporary order while the core issues surrounding sports wagering in New Jersey are fully considered by the court,” Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak said in a statement. “We continue to have full confidence in the strength and appropriateness of our position as we move forward in the litigation.”
Monmouth Park racetrack said that its plan to start accepting bets on Sunday has been put on hold following the decision.
“While we are disappointed not to be able to start this Sunday, we are confident that sports betting will be coming to New Jersey in the very near future,” Dennis Drazin, a legal consultant for the racetrack, said in a statement.
No other racetracks or casinos have revealed plans yet to offer sports betting.
New Jersey would have become only the second state in the country, after Nevada, to offer wagering on individual games at betting locations known as sports books. Delaware offers multi-game parlay pools where bettors must pick several games correctly to win money.
In an opinion read in court Friday, Shipp said he based his granting of the temporary restraining order partly on the public interest in knowing whether state law is in conflict with federal law. He also said the leagues demonstrated they would be “irreparably harmed” if sports betting were allowed in New Jersey.
“More legal gambling leads to more total gambling, which in turns leads to an increased incentive to fix plaintiffs’ matches,” Shipp said. New Jersey’s permission of sports gambling “would engender the same ills” that the 1992 federal law at the heart of the current legal fight sought to combat, he added.
New Jersey already lost a constitutional challenge to that law, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which bans state-sponsored sports gambling. Instead, Christie relied on a 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last year that said PASPA didn’t prohibit New Jersey “from repealing its ban on sports wagering.” The leagues have claimed the state is nevertheless violating the law because racetracks and casinos are heavily regulated by the state.
Shipp indicated the temporary restraining order was necessary to ensure the issue is argued in court. The leagues and the state traded briefs this week up until Thursday.
“At this stage of the proceedings, the court can’t read the 3rd Circuit’s order so as to render PASPA null,” Shipp said. He was to issue a schedule for further court hearings later Friday.
New Jersey lawmakers see sports betting as a lifeline for the state’s flagging casino and horse racing industries. In Nevada, nearly $3.5 billion was wagered on sports in 2012, according to the American Gaming Association, a Washington-based trade group. More than 95 percent of that was returned to patrons in winnings, the group estimated.
Estimates of illegal sports betting nationwide run into the hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
By DAVID PORTER
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday granted a request from the four major U.S. professional sports leagues and the NCAA to temporarily stop New Jersey from allowing legalized sports betting.
U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp issued a temporary restraining order after a request by the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, Major League Baseball and the NCAA. He said the leagues have shown that they would be irreparably harmed if the state’s casinos and racetracks were permitted to allow sports betting.
The leagues’ lawsuit against the state to permanently prevent it from allowing sports betting will proceed.
Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed a law on Oct. 17 that effectively repeals the state’s ban on sports wagering and allows it at racetracks and casinos.
“This is a temporary order while the core issues surrounding sports wagering in New Jersey are fully considered by the court,” Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak said in a statement. “We continue to have full confidence in the strength and appropriateness of our position as we move forward in the litigation.”
Monmouth Park racetrack said that its plan to start accepting bets on Sunday has been put on hold following the decision.
“While we are disappointed not to be able to start this Sunday, we are confident that sports betting will be coming to New Jersey in the very near future,” Dennis Drazin, a legal consultant for the racetrack, said in a statement.
No other racetracks or casinos have revealed plans yet to offer sports betting.
New Jersey would have become only the second state in the country, after Nevada, to offer wagering on individual games at betting locations known as sports books. Delaware offers multi-game parlay pools where bettors must pick several games correctly to win money.
In an opinion read in court Friday, Shipp said he based his granting of the temporary restraining order partly on the public interest in knowing whether state law is in conflict with federal law. He also said the leagues demonstrated they would be “irreparably harmed” if sports betting were allowed in New Jersey.
“More legal gambling leads to more total gambling, which in turns leads to an increased incentive to fix plaintiffs’ matches,” Shipp said. New Jersey’s permission of sports gambling “would engender the same ills” that the 1992 federal law at the heart of the current legal fight sought to combat, he added.
New Jersey already lost a constitutional challenge to that law, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which bans state-sponsored sports gambling. Instead, Christie relied on a 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last year that said PASPA didn’t prohibit New Jersey “from repealing its ban on sports wagering.” The leagues have claimed the state is nevertheless violating the law because racetracks and casinos are heavily regulated by the state.
Shipp indicated the temporary restraining order was necessary to ensure the issue is argued in court. The leagues and the state traded briefs this week up until Thursday.
“At this stage of the proceedings, the court can’t read the 3rd Circuit’s order so as to render PASPA null,” Shipp said. He was to issue a schedule for further court hearings later Friday.
New Jersey lawmakers see sports betting as a lifeline for the state’s flagging casino and horse racing industries. In Nevada, nearly $3.5 billion was wagered on sports in 2012, according to the American Gaming Association, a Washington-based trade group. More than 95 percent of that was returned to patrons in winnings, the group estimated.
Estimates of illegal sports betting nationwide run into the hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
Everyone who wants to bet football and has season tickets or tickets to this weeks jets game (in jersey) should boycott the game
everyone else who wants to bet football in nj should boycott the games on tv and not purchase any nfl team jerseys or other memorabilia
unless this happens in the near future
the only place you can bet is vegas or your local
hav fun
everyone else who wants to bet football in nj should boycott the games on tv and not purchase any nfl team jerseys or other memorabilia
unless this happens in the near future
the only place you can bet is vegas or your local
hav fun
Senator Ray Lesniak <s>@</s>SenatorLesniak <small class="time"> 52m52 minutes ago </small> If the NFL thinks they're going to wear me out, think again guys.
Wow, just wow. That is the argument of "irreparably harmed"? That is the worst argument ever. So more people gambling leads to increased match fixing?? WTF, that is the stupidest argument ever. You are a judge not an economist. So the odds of a fixed Match go up if 20,000 people bet $100 on a game as opposed to 5,000 people? Have there ever been matches fixed where hundreds of people knew about it and were in on it? If I wanted to fix a match today to win millions of dollars don't you think I could just purchase a $500 plane ticket to Las Vegas to put the bet?
The only "irreparably harmed" I think that would happen is possibly more match fixing may be exposed. Maybe, just maybe, there are more match fixing scandals out there then we know about. Opening legal gambling in another state like NJ would just increase the odds these fixes would exposed by legal, legitimate gamblers. Maybe the leagues do not want the public to lose faith in the leagues when they find out more of this stuff has been going on.
