The state Supreme Court has dismissed a Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board lawyer's challenge to board regulations banning its attorneys from working for casinos, racetracks and other gaming centers for two years after leaving the board.

The justices, in a split 4-3 decision, dismissed board attorney Susan Yocum's petition asking the court to deem the restrictions unconstitutional in Yocum v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor, along with Justices Max Baer, Sallie Updyke Mundy, and the opinion's author, Kevin Dougherty, made up the majority. Justices Debra Todd and Christine L. Donohue joined Justice David N. Wecht's dissent.