Monday, a U.S. appeals court ruled that Delaware’s plan to allow sports betting is in violation of federal law, choosing sides of the major sports leagues and the NCAA who argued it would promote game fixing.

Delaware was planning to start sports betting next month. Attorneys who argued for the case for Delaware appeared stunned, and Governor Jack Markell said his administration is looking at its legal options and is still planning to offer limited wagering. Attorneys for the U.S. professional sports leagues and the NCAA had sought an injunction against the plan on grounds that game fixing would be encouraged by sports betting which also would harm their reputations and expose young people to gambling, and violates a 1992 federal law that prevents the spread of sports betting, which also would harm their reputations and expose young people to gambling. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled against the state, which is seeking additional revenue to overcome an $800 million budget shortage. Circuit judge Theodore McKee said the Delaware plan would violate the 1992 law. Nachbar attorney for the leagues said: “They clearly have ruled that what the state plans is illegal, the court may well issue a permanent injunction. The closer you get to single-game betting, the more you call into question the integrity of what happens on the field or on the court” Senator van Delaware Jack Markell said: “I would have preferred the single-game betting with point spreads on more sports, but we didn’t get that.”