Breaking: Appeals Court Denies Delaware’s Appeal
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.
Tags: Delaware Budget, sports betting
And how much money are we in this for in legal fees chasing after a boondoggle economic stimulus, when real “thinkers and doers” may just need a lil’ bit of help to create real jobs thru entrepeneurship? Perhaps, that’s the gamble our Delaware leaders should look towards–the ingenuity, creativity, and willingness of its’ own citizenry. Let’s see…it’s worked for Gore, DuPont, eZanga, Allen Foods, King Korn, Hercules, L.D. Caulk, and a host of others….oh yea, and I almost forgot Happy Harry’s.
It’s hard to be an entrepeneur when you’re tied to a job for health care coverage.
Many a “garage/workroom” tinkerer made it big while holding that job. Besides, if healthcare is what held ’em up, you know UI, that person is not really that entrepeneur profile of risk-taking. But you do raise an interesting angle, of perhaps the state helping w/ health insurance while pursuing a project? I’d rather underwrite that, than this gambling, casino, dead-end nonsense of unpredictable revenue stream, and the shift in quality of life as was once known.
“Besides, if healthcare is what held ‘em up, you know UI, that person is not really that entrepeneur profile of risk-taking.”
Spoken like a true asshole. Right, JC. Take a risk with your family’s healthcare. E pluribus unum = every man for himself and devil take the hindmost.
As for you blithe comment about ingenuity, creativity, blah blah blah, Hercules and AstraZeneca were not about anything of the sort. They were founded when antitrust regulators broke up the DuPont Co.
And nobody has ever created a job for any reason but to make a bigger profit. Please stop pretending that “creating jobs” is anything but an unintened, and normally unwanted, byproduct of the profit motive.
geez Geez–what a take–creating jobs, a byproduct of profit. Wouldn’t want to argue with those results. Why so angry?
And healthcare-I wouldn’t take the risk….but some would..and have.
Spoken like a true asshole.
Holy shizzit! 😯
JC being labelled an asshole is akin to Protack being called “electable.” I figured that would be a powerful correlation for you, Geezer. 😉 Disagree with Joanne all you want, but “asshole” isn’t even in the same ballpark.
Wouldn’t anyone (read: Markell) have thought this out before “betting the ranch” that gambling revenues would “save” Delaware?
Insane.
Why Smitty–how gallant!! Thanks…drop by for a TAB.
Comment by Unstable Isotope on 29 September 2009 at 11:32 am:
“It’s hard to be an entrepreneur when you’re tied to a job for health care coverage.”
UI is straight on accurate.Read:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204005504574233992478668488.html
On the gaming revenues. During the campaign last year I supported marking gaming revenues to education reform and choice (Vision 2015). That number was around $35 million. To think gaming would save Delaware’s budget was and is foolish.
Mike Protack
Im trying to wrap my head around this, but I think Protack agrees with UI…… you know what this means…. UI, you are off the island…. and I now think health care is irrelevant 🙂
JC dresses to nice and smells way better than an ahole.
This legal decision should come as no surprise. It was short and to the point. The facts of the case are relatively simple. The exemption to allow sports betting in Delaware was very specific. It applied to NFL football and parlays only. Legally, that is the end of they story. What is surprising is a sitting governor and a bunch of legislators were unable to comprehend simple legal principles and their certain application in a court of law. Surely they didn’t think for one second they could pull a fast one on the country’s sports league’s? Or that a court with judges from Pennsylvania and NJ, states with vested interests in gambling revenue, would rule in their favor when the applicable law was so clearly stated?
Now that a final decision has been rendered, it’s time to actually govern and make revenue and spending decisions based on reality and not rosy income projections from half-baked ideas.
Thanks Hef–stop by for some Librium.