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The other party in the effort to prevent sports betting in New Jersey – after U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman had expressed the federal government’s support for the constitutionality of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 – was represented by attorney Jeffrey Mishkin for the NCAA, NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB:
Mishkin focused most directly on the “commandeering” question – that is, whether the federal law improperly forces most states into actions that should be the sovereignty of the states.
“The defining feature is that Congress has compelled the state legislature to take some action,” Mishkin said. “There can be no commandeering unless Congress has required a state to enact or carry out [some action]. The language of PASPA is crystal clear: It only prevents betting. It doesn’t compel New Jersey to do anything.”