In June 2017, the United Status Supreme Court announce it would consider New Jersey’s appeal of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Christie v. NCAA, et al. This was a surprise to many in the gaming legal community because the Supreme Court accepts less than one percent of petitions seeking review and the question to be decided is not the subject of a dispute between federal circuit courts. Moreover, the acting U.S. Solicitor General formally recommended that the Supreme Court decline to hear the case.

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