Statutory Interpretation

By: Derek Hawkins//May 30, 2018//

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United States Supreme Court

Case Name: Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., et al.

Case No.: 16-476

Focus: Statutory Interpretation

The State of New Jersey wants to legalize sports gambling at casinos and horseracing tracks, but a federal law, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, generally makes it unlawful for a State to “authorize” sports gambling schemes. 28 U. S. C. §3702(1). We must decide whether this provision is compatible with the system of “dual sovereignty” embodied in the Constitution.

Reversed

Dissenting: BREYER, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part. GINSBURG, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SOTOMAYOR, J., joined, and in which BREYER, J., joined in part.

Concurring: THOMAS, J., filed a concurring opinion. BREYER, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

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