Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in May that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA)—a federal law that prohibited states from authorizing sports betting but that also exempted Nevada, Delaware, Oregon and Montana because those states had adopted sports betting practices by the time of PASPA’s enactment in 1992—was unconstitutional, any and all of the 50 states have been able to legalize sports betting.
New Jersey and Delaware have taken advantage of this right and have joined Nevada as states with legalized sports betting. A handful of other states, including West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Mississippi, are expected to do the same in the approaching months.