Supreme Court of the United States / October Term 2017

Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn.

Decided May 14, 2018. Samuel A. Alito Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 16-476 · 584 U.S. 453 · Cited 310 times

Holding

Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) provisions that prohibit state authorization and licensing of sports gambling schemes, see 28 U. S. C. §3702(1), violate the Constitution’s anticommandeering rule; no other PASPA provisions are severable from the provisions at issue.

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