Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, ___ U.S. ___ (2018). This blog has covered the history of the State of New Jersey’s efforts to overcome the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”), which forbids (with some exceptions not applicable here) a State from authorizing betting on professional sports. For example, the en banc oral argument in the Third Circuit was discussed
Wisniewski v. Murphy, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2018). In 2017, the State Capitol Joint Management Commission (“JMC”) resolved to renovate the Statehouse, the building that houses (among other things) the Governor’s office and the Legislature, at a cost of up to $300 million. Parts of the building date to 1772, and it was determined that a less expansive renovation would not suffice. Resolutions to sell bonds for the work and to enter into a sale-leaseback trans
American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey v. Hendricks, ___ N.J. ___ (2018). In 2016, in a decision reported at 445 N.J. Super. 452 (App. Div. 2016), and discussed here, the Appellate Division invalidated as unconstitutional grants that the Department of Higher Education made to a Lakewood yeshiva and a Princeton seminary. The basis for that decision was Art
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