On March 8, 2019, Judge Wilken, a California District Court judge, ruled for the second time that the NCAA is unlawfully conspiring to suppress compensation of student athletes who play at the highest level of college football and basketball.1 This case, Alston v. NCAA, featured former and current Division I athletes seeking an injunction against…
Tag: Sports Gambling
What Will Gambling Legislation Look Like?
After hearing oral arguments in early December 2017 in the case Christie v. NCAA, 137 S. Ct. 2327 (2017), the Supreme Court has yet to issue a ruling regarding the legality of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”), the federal law which effectively bans sports gambling in all but four states. Going into…
The Online Gambling Landscape
In 2006, Congress passed the Uniform Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (“UIGEA”), which “prohibits gambling businesses from knowingly accepting payments in connection with the participation of another person in a bet or wager that involves the use of the Internet and that is unlawful under any federal or state law;” failure to comply with the UIGEA…