Breaking- New Jersey sports betting case will be reheard
Don’t count New Jersey out of the sports betting game just yet. This morning the full Third Circuit said it would revisit a 2-1 panel decision that threw out an appeal related to New Jersey’s sports betting authorization act. The bill signed by Governor Christie in 2014, would have allowed sports betting at racetracks and casinos in the Garden State.
The state had moved for a rehearing of the matter and now an en banc hearing, one that involves all active judges in the circuit, has been granted in response to New Jersey’s petition. The state lost an appeal to rehear the case in August by a 3 member panel of judges.
According to most interpretations of the current federal law barring sports betting, New Jersey did not act in time to be “grandfathered…...