A lawsuit filed by New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Senator Ray Lesniak in regard to sports betting being illegal in the state has been tossed out by
a federal judge.
A report on nj.com, explains that the judge, U.S. District Judge Garrett Brown, stated that Lesniak and Sweeney are not the individuals which have standing to bring forth such a lawsuit. Brown threw out the lawsuit on that basis.
The article explains that Lesniak had filed the lawsuit with the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association, the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and the Thoroughbred Breeders Association of New Jersey. Brown was cited as saying that for the lawsuit to be heard, it would have had to have been filed by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie via the state Attorney General’s Office.
"This law (the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act) essentially puts New Jersey and 45 other states at a competitive disadvantage and allows only four other states in the nation — Nevada, Oregon, Delaware and Montana — to have a monopoly on legal sports book in this country," Lesniak said via statement.
(With files from nj.com)