This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Monday, March 11th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

In the case of Murphy, the N.C. Double A, the Supreme Court

affirmed that no, the feds don't get to tell states what laws regarding gambling they can and cannot have on the books

So what's that mean for gambling going forward?

Patrick Moran is author of the new Cato paper Anyone's Game,

Sports Betting Regulations after Murphy v NCAA,

available now at Cato.org.

Who made the rules for sports gambling prior to this case Murphy v NCAA?

So well before 1992 states had their own laws regarding gambling in its many forms you know whether that was

casino gambling or horse racing or sports betting. In 1992 however Congress decided to

to pass a law called the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection

Act, commonly referred to as Paspa, and at that point, from that point forward it was the

federal government regulating sports gambling.

Okay but that didn't necessarily mean that states changed their laws to deal with it.

It just meant that the federal government believed that it had a role to play in

regulating sports gambling presumably because of its expansive view of the

Commerce Clause is that about right? That sounds about right.

So basically what happened is Paspa prevented states from changing their own laws to then

allow sports gambling.

Prior to that, states were allowed to kind of set their own rules, but basically

what Passbitt did was prevent states from changing them to have sports betting be legal, but they could change their laws to have it be

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