ORLANDO, Fla. – Legal sports betting in the United States has exploded in less than a decade, and it all started in the unlikeliest of places: the U.S. Supreme Court.

Now, before you get visions of justices placing bets on their smartphones left and right (maybe they do, maybe they don’t?), I’m sure logic will take over and tell you online sports betting was legalized because of a case that was appealed all the way up to the highest court in the country.

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Without getting into too many details, on May 14, 2018, in a 6-3 decision, the Court struck down a federal law known as PASPA – the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992. PASPA allowed only Delaware, Montana, Oregon, and Nevada to legally have establishments that could wager on sports (outside of hor

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