On May 14 the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Murphy v. NCAA, a case brought by the State of New Jersey to overturn the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) — ironically sponsored by former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, a professional basketball legend, to protect the integrity of U.S. […]
Prof. John Kindt
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Casino bills taking billions from Illinois education
Having passed the Illinois Senate on May 17 and pending in the House, Senate Bill 7 would authorize a Chicago Casino Development Authority (CCDA) as a government unto itself via a “perpetual” license with all owned or “leased” property tax exempt. CCDA is legislatively designed to be a self-governing entity with extensive and abusive government […]
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More casinos won’t help Illinois finances
In Illinois, Lincoln’s essential premise of “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” has been corrupted into “government of the casinos, by the casinos, and for the casinos” – as exemplified by the new casino legislation in Senate Bill 7. In 2015, U.S. congressional hearings highlighted that much of the Illinois […]
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Is daily fantasy sports illegal?
Virtually a nonentity in 2012, by 2015 Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) was the largest advertiser in the United States. But by the end of 2015, DFS was the subject of investigations by the U.S. Attorney offices in New York, Boston and Tampa. Other criminal justice authorities, including two dozen state attorneys general, were reviewing various […]
