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67 Duke L.J. Online 1 (2017-2019)

handle is hein.journals/duljo67 and id is 1 raw text is: Duke Law Journal Online VOLUME 67 JUNE 2017 SPORTS BETTING HAS AN EQUAL SOVEREIGNTY PROBLEM RYAN M. RODENBERGT JOHN T. HOLDENTT INTRODUCTION Professor Thomas B. Colby's In Defense of the Equal Sovereignty Principle comprehensively examines the underpinnings of the Supreme Court's landmark Shelby County v. Holder' decision, which found one portion of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) to impermissibly differentiate between states in violation of the equal sovereignty doctrine.2 Professor Colby also described the potential applicability of Shelby County to other federal statutes that treat states differently.3 One of the impacted laws discussed by Professor Colby-and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her Shelby County dissent-is the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA).4 PASPA is the subject of litigation currently pending at the Supreme Court.5 PASPA acts as Copyright © 2017 Ryan M. Rodenberg & John T. Holden. t Associate Professor, Florida State University. ft Visiting Scholar, Florida State University. 1. Shelby Cry. v. Holder, 133 S. Ct 2612 (2013). Shelby County extended the equal sovereignty doctrine as set forth four years earlier in Nw. Austin Mun. Utility Dist. No. One v. Holder, 557 U.S. 193 (2009). 2. See generally Thomas B. Colby, In Defense of the Equal Sovereignty Principle, 65 DUKE L.J. 1087 (2016). 3. Id. at 1154-59. 4. Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 3701-04 (2012). 5. See Nat'l Collegiate Athletic Ass'n v. Governor of N.J., 832 F.3d 389 (3d Cir. 2016) (en banc) [hereinafter Christie II]; see also Nat'l Collegiate Athletic Ass'n v. Governor of N.J., 730 F.3d 208 (3d Cir. 2013), cert. denied, 134 S. Ct 2866 (2014) [hereinafter Christie I]. New Jersey's certiorari petition in Christie II was pending in the Supreme Court as of June 22, 2017. See Petition

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