New Jersey will be unable to provide sports betting after its appeal against a prior ruling failed. The U.S. Court of Appeals decided by a majority of 10-2 that a law glided by New Jersey in 2014 that may have allowed sports betting at its casinos and racetracks didn't agree to the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) which prohibits states from authorising, sponsoring, operating or licensing sports betting.

The sports betting bill was first approved by New Jersey voters in 2011, with the country’s four major professional sports leagues beginning legal action against the proposed law the next year.

Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law in 2014 that repealed prohibitions against sports gambling. However, the legislation has since been stymied by legal action on several occasions, with last August’s Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision validated by this week’s ruling.

“Because PASPA, by its terms, prohibits states from authorising by law sports gambling, and as the 2014 law does exactly that, the 2014 law violates federal law,” the court wrote.

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