{"id":361160,"date":"2018-05-14T19:59:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-supreme-court-legalizes-sports-gambling\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T19:59:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:59:19","slug":"presstv-us-supreme-court-legalizes-sports-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-supreme-court-legalizes-sports-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US Supreme Court legalizes sports gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for states to legalize gambling on baseball, basketball, American football and other sports &#8212; a business worth tens of billions of dollars annually.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s top court ruled 6-3 in favor of New Jersey, the eastern state that has lobbied for years for the right to allow sports betting.<\/p>\n<p>The court declared unconstitutional a 1992 federal law which banned wagering on professional and university sports except in four states where the market was already in place &#8212; Nevada, Delaware, Montana and Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Congress had enacted the legislation &#8212; championed by then US senator Bill Bradley, a Democrat and former star basketball player for the New York Knicks &#8212; on the grounds that gambling would threaten the integrity of sporting events.<\/p>\n<p>In its opinion, the high court said the US Congress reserves the right to regulate sports gambling directly, &#8220;but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/05\/14\/561737\/US-Supreme-Court--sports-gambling\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for states to legalize gambling on baseball, basketball, American football and other sports &#8212; a business worth tens of billions of dollars annually. The nation&#8217;s top court ruled 6-3 in favor of New Jersey, the eastern state that has lobbied for years for the right to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}