National Football League v. Governor of the Delaware

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that Touchdown II violated the lottery provision of the Delaware Constitution by utilizing a fixed-payoff scheme
• “Delaware courts subscribe to the rule of construction that when terms of the Constitution are ambiguous, the interpretation of the legislature is entitled to deference.”
• `\lottery\ should be interpreted to encompass not only games of pure chance but also games in which chance is the dominant determining factor'
• “None of the [1976] games permits head-to-head or single game betting.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).