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 (2018) · 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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How the Justices voted

Decided 7–2.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• New York v. United States · 505 U.S. 144 (1992)
• Printz v. United States · 521 U.S. 898 (1997)
• Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. · 452 U.S. 264 (1981)
• United States v. Booker · 543 U.S. 220 (2005)
• Gonzales v. Raich · 545 U.S. 1 (2005)
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Mississippi · 456 U.S. 742 (1982)
• Mut. Pharm. Co. v. Bartlett · 570 U.S. 472 (2013)
• Reno v. Condon · 528 U.S. 141 (2000)
• South Carolina v. Baker · 485 U.S. 505 (1988)
• Morales v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · 504 U.S. 374 (1992)
• Gregory v. Ashcroft · 501 U.S. 452 (1991)
• Arizona v. United States · 567 U.S. 387 (2012)
• Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Brock · 480 U.S. 678 (1987)
• Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton Railroad · 295 U.S. 330 (1935)
• Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · 523 U.S. 83 (1998)
• United States v. Lopez · 514 U.S. 549 (1995)
• DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno · 547 U.S. 332 (2006)
• Massachusetts v. Mellon · 262 U.S. 447 (1923)
• Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States · 143 U.S. 457 (1892)
• English v. General Electric Co. · 496 U.S. 72 (1990)
• United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · 200 U.S. 321 (1906)
• Wyeth v. Levine · 555 U.S. 555 (2009)
• Davis v. Federal Election Commission · 554 U.S. 724 (2008)
• Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council · 530 U.S. 363 (2000)
• National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius · 567 U.S. 519 (2012)
• Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis · 553 U.S. 328 (2008)
• Greater New Orleans Broadcasting Assn., Inc. v. United States · 527 U.S. 173 (1999)
• American Ins. Assn. v. Garamendi · 539 U.S. 396 (2003)
• Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · 518 U.S. 727 (1996)
• United States v. Moore · 95 U.S. 760 (1878)

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• Gamble v. United States · 587 U.S. 678 (2019)
• Kansas v. Garcia · 589 U.S. 191 (2020)
• Trump v. Vance · 591 U.S. 786 (2020)

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Source: Supreme Court of the United States, slip opinions (2018). Citation count from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data. Data last verified 2026-08-15. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).