Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (2018)

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United States Supreme Court case landmark decision

Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (2018) is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down the federal ban on state-authorized sports gambling, significantly expanding states’ rights under the anti-commandeering doctrine.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Supreme Court case → landmark decision →
alsoKnownAs	Murphy v. NCAA → Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn. →
arguedOn	December 4, 2017 →
challengedStatute	Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act →
challengedStatuteAbbreviation	PASPA →
citation	584 U.S. ___ (2018) →
concerns	Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → federalism → state-authorized sports gambling →
court	Supreme Court of the United States →
decidedOn	May 14, 2018 →
dissentingOpinionBy	Ruth Bader Ginsburg → Sonia Sotomayor →
docketNumber	No. 16-476 →
effect	Allowed individual U.S. states to legalize and regulate sports betting. → Significantly expanded states’ rights under the anti-commandeering doctrine. →
holding	Congress cannot issue direct orders to state legislatures to maintain prohibitions on sports gambling. → PASPA’s provision prohibiting state authorization of sports gambling is not severable from the rest of the statute. → The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act’s provisions prohibiting state authorization of sports gambling schemes violate the anti-commandeering rule of the Tenth Amendment. →
jurisdiction	United States federal law →
legalIssue	constitutionality of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act → scope of the anti-commandeering doctrine →
locationOfCourt	Washington, D.C. →
majorityJoinedBy	Anthony M. Kennedy NERFINISHED → Clarence Thomas NERFINISHED → Elena Kagan → John G. Roberts Jr. NERFINISHED → Neil M. Gorsuch →
majorityOpinionBy	Samuel A. Alito Jr. NERFINISHED →
originatedFrom	Christie v. National Collegiate Athletic Association →
partlyJoinedBy	Stephen G. Breyer NERFINISHED →
petitioner	Philip D. Murphy → State of New Jersey NERFINISHED →
proceduralHistory	New Jersey’s 2014 law partially repealing prohibitions on sports wagering was enjoined by lower federal courts under PASPA. → The Supreme Court granted certiorari to review the Third Circuit’s decision. → The Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld PASPA and the injunction against New Jersey’s law. →
relatedDoctrine	anti-commandeering doctrine →
relatedPrecedent	New York v. United States (1992) → Printz v. United States (1997) →
replacedParty	Chris Christie →
respondent	National Basketball Association → National Collegiate Athletic Association → National Football League → National Hockey League → Office of the Commissioner of Baseball → United States →
result	PASPA was struck down as unconstitutional. →
subjectMatter	sports betting regulation in the United States →
vote	6–3 on the core anti-commandeering question →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association ("Murphy v. NCAA") → Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association ("Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn.") →	alsoKnownAs
Printz v. United States ("Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association") →	citedIn
New York v. United States (1992) →	laterCitedIn
Jay Printz, Sheriff/Coroner, Ravalli County, Montana, et al. v. United States ("Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association") →	relatedCase