North Jersey – The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied Governor Christie a rehearing of a judicial panel’s affirming of the federal ban on sports betting at the state’s horse racing tracks and Atlantic City casinos. The three-page filing signed by Circuit Judge Julio M. Fuentes noted that none of the three judges requested a rehearing, and neither did a majority of the circuit’s judges. The state’s attorneys had sought a hearing from the full circuit — a process known as “en banc” — in part because the vote by the panel in September was 2-1. Judge…