Supreme Court of the United States
Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn.
May 14, 2018584 U.S. 453
Summary
The Supreme Court reversed the Third Circuit, holding that PASPA’s prohibition on state authorization (and by extension licensing) of sports gambling violates the anticommandeering principle of the Tenth Amendment and that no provision of PASPA is severable from the invalid portions. The Court therefore struck down the statute.
Holding
- Whether PASPA’s prohibition on state authorization of sports gambling violates the anticommandeering doctrine.. PASPA’s anti‑authorization provision is unconstitutional because it commands state legislatures to refrain from authorizing sports gambling, violating the Tenth Amendment anticommandeering principle.
- Whether PASPA’s prohibition on state licensing of sports gambling violates the anticommandeering doctrine.. The anti‑licensing provision likewise violates the anticommandeering doctrine and need not be decided separately because it suffers the same defect as the anti‑authorization provision.
- Whether any provision of PASPA is severable from the unconstitutional provisions.. No provision of PASPA is severable from the provisions directly at issue; the statute must be struck down in its entirety.
Docket 16-476
Cited authorities
- 28 U.S.C. §3702
- 28 U.S.C. §3702
- N.J. Stat. Ann. §5:8
- N.J. Stat. Ann. §5:9
- 25 U.S.C. §2701
- 2 Seton Hall J. Sport L. 5
- 28 U.S.C. §3701
- 28 U.S.C. §3701
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