Report: New Jersey Sports Betting Legal Fight Has Cost Taxpayers $2.8 MillionCourt Battle Has Been Expensive To Help AC Casinos |
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The state of New Jersey is trying as hard as it can to bring sports betting to Atlantic City casinos, but it has met opposition from the sports leagues.
In its fight, the state has spent at least $2.8 million so far, according to the Associated Press. That money is what has been billed by the law firm representing the Garden State, from August 2012 to the end of 2013, the report said.
According to the report, the $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 $800 million budget deficit,” state Sen. 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 $200 million in revenue from its sportsbooks in 2013.
Atlantic City casinos have been slumping heavily since 2006, and that’s why Gov. 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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