This just in from the News Journal:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit today denied Delaware’s petition for a hearing on its bid to offer sports betting on the outcome of fewer than three National Football League games.
A three-judge panel of the appeals court in Philadelphia ruled last month that Delaware’s plan to offer head-to-head bets on single games and wagers on sports besides the NFL violated federal law. America’s major sports leagues had sued the state over those plans in July, contending that Delaware’s exemption under a 1992 federal ban on sports gambling only permitted “parlay’’ bets on at least three pro football games.
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Today’s one-paragraph denial, signed by Judge Thomas M. Hardiman — who was on the three-judge panel that unanimously ruled against Delaware in August — simply said “a majority’’ of the judges did not vote for a hearing before the full 12-judge panel.