\nNEWARK, N.J. (AP) \u2013 Casinos and racetracks in New Jersey will have to wait a bit longer for a judge\u2019s ruling on the state\u2019s efforts to allow legal sports gambling.<\/p>\n
\tU.S. District Judge Michael Shipp initially was to have published an opinion on Monday, but he granted an extension so the two sides could file more briefs.<\/p>\n
\tShipp will hear oral arguments Oct. 31 in Trenton. He\u2019ll then rule on whether his 2013 order permits New Jersey to allow sports betting, as long as it isn\u2019t state-regulated.<\/p>\n
\tThe legal battle stretches back to 2011 when New Jersey voters overwhelmingly approved legalizing sports gambling in a nonbinding referendum. The Legislature followed by passing a sports wagering bill that Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed into law in early 2012.<\/p>\n
\tThe four pro sports leagues and the NCAA sued several months later to stop the effort, and Shipp ruled in early 2013 that the federal law restricting sports gambling to Nevada and three other states was constitutional. He issued a permanent injunction stopping New Jersey from implementing its law, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up New Jersey\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n
\tThis year, Christie vetoed a new bill that would have repealed the state\u2019s prohibitions on sports gambling, but in early September, he did an apparent about-face by announcing he was ordering the state attorney general\u2019s office not to prosecute casinos and racetracks if they offered sports betting that wasn\u2019t regulated by the state.<\/p>\n
\tThe leagues and the NCAA filed a response last week that called Christie\u2019s move \u201castounding,\u201d \u201dspecious\u201d and a \u201cblatant violation\u201d of Shipp\u2019s 2013 order.<\/p>\n
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