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Federal judge, Michael Shipp yesterday granted a permanent injunction to stop New Jersey from offering sports betting, effectively now stopping the state’s efforts however the battle will now likely go the Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
The Judge agreed with the National Football League and other sports organizations to prevent New Jersey from allowing sports books at casinos.
On the side of the NFL was also the U.S. DOJ which supported the case to defend the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act passed by Congress.
Shipp noted in his 45 page judgment that;
“Although some of the questions raised in this case are novel, judicial intervention is generally unwarranted no matter how unwise a court considers a policy decision of the legislative branch,” Shipp wrote. “As such, to the extent the people of New Jersey disagree with PASPA, their remedy is not through passage of a state law or through the judiciary, but through the repeal or amendment of PASPA in Congress.”