The Supreme Court upheld the act in Champion v. The infamous Louisiana Lottery, which operated in the years after the Civil War, was one of the alleged evils that prompted Congress to enact a law suppressing the interstate sale of lottery tickets. Gambling has a long and checkered history in Louisiana. Louisiana had a controversial history of gambling 1304, a federal law prohibiting broadcasting advertisements for gambling casinos, as a violation of the First Amendment. 173 (1999), a unanimous Supreme Court continued its trend of providing strong protection for commercial speech by striking down 18 U.S.C. In Greater New Orleans Broadcasting Association v.
(AP Photo/Burt Steel, used with permission from the Associated Press.) The Supreme Court struck down a law prohibiting broadcast advertisements for the casinos in 1999 in Greater New Orleans Broadcasting Association v. A riverboat casino launches into the Mississippi River in 1995 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
