South Dakota voters could decide whether they want their state to join others across the country that are moving to legalize betting on sports following a U.S. Supreme Court decision this year.
That decision in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association overturned a 1992 federal law that prohibited bets on football, basketball, and other sporting events, leaving states to decide whether they want to create systems to legalize and regulate the widespread black market of sports betting. A handful of states that already offered sports betting prior to the 1992 federal law were grandfathered in, and now others are rushing to join them.
