New Jersey legal fight over sports betting has cost taxpayers USD 2.8 million
According to the report, the US$ 2.8 million doesn’t include all of what has been spent, as other lawyers have been brought on to help strengthen the state’s case. “We have an US$ 800 million budget deficit,” state Senator Shirley Turner said. “We don’t have the money to spend on something on which the odds were long. It could have been better spent for so many other things, to help people in the state who need the help.”
The sports betting case has made its way to the Supreme Court. New Jersey is basically trying to overturn a decades-old law that limited sports betting to just four states in the country—one of them being Nevada.
Nevada casinos saw around US$ 200 million in revenue from its sportsbooks in 2013.
Atlantic City casinos have been slumping heavily since 2006, and that’s why Governor Chris Christie is fighting vigorously to see sports betting in his state. New Jersey lawmakers already voted to allow the sports betting, but the leagues sued to stop the plan. It’s considered unlikely that the Supreme Court will rule on the case.
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