States that choose to allow sports wagering will now be allowed to do so.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a sweeping 7-2 decision May 14 in favor of New Jersey in that state's court case against America's largest sports organizations, essentially laid waste to the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act.
Commonly referred to as PASPA, the 1992 law banned the vast majority of states from allowing sports wagering while grandfathering a handful of states that had already allowed sports betting, most notably Nevada.
