\nNEWARK, N.J. (AP) \u2013 Four major professional sports leagues and the NCAA filed a court challenge to the state\u2019s latest attempt to offer legal sports gambling on Monday, calling the effort \u201castounding,\u201d \u201dspecious\u201d and a \u201cblatant violation\u201d of an earlier court order.<\/p>\n
\tThe filing came three weeks after Republican Gov. Chris Christie issued a directive that would allow casinos and racetracks to offer sports wagering as long as it wasn\u2019t state-regulated, an attempt to avoid conflicting with a 1992 federal law.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cDefendants\u2019 latest arguments are nothing more than a blatant attempt to circumvent this Court\u2019s injunction and the federal law that it prohibits defendants from violating,\u201d the leagues wrote.<\/p>\n
\tU.S. District Judge Michael Shipp, whose injunction sided with the leagues in upholding the federal ban last year, is expected to rule in Trenton by next week on the matter.<\/p>\n
\tIn the meantime, casinos and racetracks remain in limbo as they await a resolution. Monmouth Park officials have said they want to offer sports betting as soon as possible and have been making preparations for the last year.<\/p>\n
\tNew Jersey voters overwhelmingly endorsed legal sports betting through a nonbinding referendum in 2011, and the Legislature passed a sports wagering law that was signed by Christie in 2012.<\/p>\n
\tIn August of that year, the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, Major League Baseball and the NCAA sued Christie to stop sports gambling, citing the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which bans sports gambling in all but Nevada and three other states that had offered sports pools but not individual game betting.<\/p>\n
\tChristie nevertheless this month announced a directive that sports betting at casinos and racetracks was no longer illegal in the state.<\/p>\n
\tThe leagues, in their filing on Monday, said that the law passed by New Jersey\u2019s Legislature explicitly saw sports gambling being a state-regulated industry, which would be a violation of the 1992 act. They also argued that since casinos and racetracks are heavily regulated by the state, offering sports wagering there would amount to having it regulated by the state as well.<\/p>\n
\tA spokesman for the state attorney general\u2019s office declined to comment Monday. A spokesman for Christie didn\u2019t respond to email requests for comment on the filing.<\/p>\n
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