Author: Mike Murphy

The House version of a bill recently introduced in Indiana seeking to legalize sports betting has been modified to include a 1% “integrity fee” payable to the major sports leagues if the effort to legalize sports betting is successful. After receiving input from the NBA and MLB, Rep. Alan Morrison has modified the bill to…

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed off on a bill in October authorizing the state’s casinos and other “qualified entities” to take their games online. The bill authorized online poker, online casino games, gave daily fantasy sports the official OK and even authorized online sports betting if the federal sports betting prohibition is ever repealed or…

The ongoing New Jersey Supreme Court case has sparked discussions across the nation regarding what might happen if the court rules in favor of New Jersey and repeals the federal sports betting ban. Should that happen, individual states will have the freedom to decide for themselves whether or not to allow sports betting.

A nearly-forgotten law still on the books could prove pivotal in bringing legal Delaware sports betting back to the state should New Jersey prevail in its Supreme Court case challenging the federal sports betting prohibition. If New Jersey’s suit is successful, Delaware is likely to become one of the first states to implement legal sports…

Iowa may be one of just a few states that still prohibits residents from participating in daily fantasy sports and most other forms of online gaming, but that doesn’t mean the outlook is all bad. Lawmakers have made no fewer than four separate attempts in recent years to pass legislation that would legalize daily fantasy…

The long-awaited Supreme Court case that will decide the fate of legal sports betting in the United States is officially underway. Lawmakers representing New Jersey in its challenge of the federal prohibition of sports betting presented oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court of the United States this morning.

It seems the NBA is finally going to play its cards all out in the open after going years refusing to take an official stance on sports betting. NBA Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel Dan Spillane revealed the decision last week at the Sports Betting USA conference in New York.

In a flurry of activity, lawmakers in Pennsylvania got a massive gambling bill approved first in the Senate yesterday and then in the House earlier this morning. The bill now goes to the desk of Governor Tom Wolf for his signature to turn the bill into law.