A decisive opinion issued by the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a 1992 ban on sports gambling, putting the ball in Springfield’s court.

 

States will be entrusted with setting their own laws involving sports gambling, following a May 14 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

 

The high court, voting 6-3 on an opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito, reversed a decadeslong federal law prohibiting states from chartering commercial intuitions devoted to wagering on sports games.

 

Since 1992, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, or PASPA, has placed a nationwide ban on sports betting. Four states – Nevada, Oregon, Delaware and Montana – were exempt from the law, having previously passed laws allowing sports gambling.

 

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