Season 2 Episode 3: The Sleeping Dragon

Authors

Sara Gras

Files

Description

Season 2 is back after a short hiatus, and taking you back to a time when Congress banned sports betting. What drove this legislation and how was it overturned?

Features excerpts of interviews with:

Bob Boland, Assistant Professor of Law
Seton Hall Law School

Dennis Drazin, Partner
Drazin & Warshaw, PC

Edward Hartnett, Richard J. Hughes Professor of Law
Seton Hall Law School

Ronald Riccio, Dean Emeritus
Seton Hall Law School
Of Counsel at McElroy Deutsch

Legal Materials Referenced:

• Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act
• New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992)
• Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898 (1997)
• Murphy v. NCAA, 584 U.S. 453 (2018)
• Edward A. Hartnett, Distinguishing Permissible Preemption from Unconstitutional Commandeering, 96 Notre Dame L. Rev. 351 (2020)

Other Sources:

• Ronald Blum, MLB Reinstates Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, Making Them Hall of Fame Eligible
• Evan Andrews, What Was the 1919 ‘Black Sox’ Baseball Scandal

Publication Date

7-7-2025

Disciplines

Education Law | Law and Gender

Recommended Citation

Gras, Sara, "Season 2 Episode 3: The Sleeping Dragon" (2025). Season 02. 3.
https://scholarship.shu.edu/hearsay-s02/3