All Gambling Lawsuits: Class Actions, Settlements and Court Cases by Category

207 gambling lawsuits in 19 categories are on record as of November 14, 2026, from 23 jurisdictions, and 4 of them accept consumer claims today. This page lists every category with its count and its legal theory, with the live claims first.

It links to no operator and refers no one to a law firm, and filing a claim is always free. Which of these cases has put money in a player's pocket?

Counts rendered from the case record on the build day; checked November 14, 2026.

Settlements you can still claim

The High 5 deadline is per the settlement site, amending order not retrieved. The New York deadline is derived from the agreement, which names no request form.

4 gambling settlements accept consumer claims as of November 14, 2026, Pulsz (to November 30, 2026), High 5 Games (to January 4, 2027), the Riverside Resort & Casino data breach settlement (to January 4, 2027) and the New York attorney general's agreement with VGW (Sweeps Coin redemption to August 31, 2027), and no gambling-addiction or sportsbook case has ever paid a player.

Every payout figure on this site is an estimate with its formula shown. Filing is free, and the only claim forms are on the court-approved sites named in the table, kept in date order under open gambling class action settlements by deadline.

Pulsz and High 5 are set to pay if the court grants final approval, and the Riverside settlement awaits its January 27, 2027 hearing.

A fifth process, the Malta Gaming Authority's invitation to BTM Entertainment players to claim transferred player balances, has no deadline and no published total, as set out under BTM Entertainment player funds claims.

The gambling settlement eligibility checker shows whether a given account falls inside a class.

The numbers in brief

The 207 cases split into 138 decided matters, 8 pending complaints, 31 dismissals, 9 appeals, 4 final settlements, 1 paid and 3 closed settlements, with the rest stayed, certified, withdrawn or at the motion-to-dismiss stage.

18 are class actions, 14 of them in the United States, 0 in Canada, 4 in Australia and the rest in the Netherlands and New Zealand. Where do the class actions sit?

Every category, its count and its legal theory

Each category below is one page of this site with its own count, its own list and the legal theory that holds it together; the count is rendered from the record on the day you read it.

Sweepstakes and social casino cases come first because they carry the live consumer claims, and the rest follow by count. Where were these cases brought?

Lawsuits by country

The United States holds 40 of the cases, Germany 15, the Court of Justice of the European Union 27, the United Kingdom 14, Canada 5 and Australia 5.

US states are ranked on gambling lawsuits by US state.

What changed in the last 60 days

0 gambling lawsuits were filed and 12 changed status between September 15 and November 14, 2026, 4 of them prediction-market cases.

• November 13: CFTC v. Louisiana filed in the Eastern District of Louisiana (2:26-cv-02612), the eleventh state the CFTC has sued
• November 13: Ashton v Betfair dismissed, [2026] EWHC 2935 (KB)
• November 12: Louisiana attorney general sues ten prediction-market operators in the 21st Judicial District Court, Tangipahoa Parish, per the court tracker; the CFTC release confirms a temporary order
• November 9: ADI 8027, the lead challenge to Brazil's MP 1.394/2026, docketed at the Supremo Tribunal Federal
• November 4: Arkansas attorney general sues VGW in White County Circuit Court; the complaint states allegations only
• October 28: AUSTRAC v Star, AUD 260 million penalty, [2026] FCA 1606, per press reports; the judgment text was not retrieved
• October 26: Malta's Court of Appeal refers Article 56A to the CJEU and stays the appeal, per a law firm's report of the order
• September 17: BGH hearing in I ZR 216/25; verdict set for January 28, 2027

The full sixty-day view is on what changed in gambling litigation in the last 60 days.

Who sues whom: the five lines of gambling litigation

Five kinds of plaintiff account for every gambling lawsuit on record: players suing operators (class actions, individual refund suits and duty-of-care claims), regulators and attorneys general suing operators, operators suing regulators and states over licenses, taxes and bans, prosecutors charging operators and fixers, and gambling companies suing each other over patents, contracts and shares.

A complaint states one side's allegations, and only the court's orders decide anything, as how a gambling class action works, step by step explains.

Whether a player can recover money depends on the line and the country: Washington's virtual-chip statute produced about USD 651 million in social casino settlements, the German void-contract theory has produced appellate refund judgments and a Federal Court of Justice test case set for January 28, 2027, and the duty-of-care theory has failed in every English case while Sweden's Supreme Court ordered a refund of EUR 527,395 on July 1, 2025. The grounds are compared under can you get gambling losses back.

Arbitration: sent to arbitration or kept in court

An arbitration clause in an app's terms decides more sweepstakes and social casino cases than any statute: of the US sweepstakes rulings tallied by a benchmark tracker as of November 13, 2026, ten sent players to arbitration and six kept them in court, and the Ninth Circuit's DoubleDown decision of January 29, 2020 (No. 18-36015) is the reason the Washington cases stayed in court at all.

The case records themselves note arbitration compelled or ordered in 5 cases. The rulings are listed on gambling cases and arbitration clauses.

Settlements and judgments to date

The twelve matters below are among the largest money outcomes in the record: the social casino settlements, the Fortnite refund order and the MGM data breach settlement paid consumers, while the securities, antitrust and patent sums went to investors and companies. Amounts are in the currency shown and ordered by size within it.

Year by year, the totals are on gambling settlements by year and amount.

Every case we track (207 cases, CSV)

The table lists every one of the 207 cases in the record as of November 14, 2026, newest filing first, with court and docket, status and its date; the category pages hold the same cases grouped by subject.

The full record is in CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0 through open data.

The same record is searchable with search all gambling lawsuits.

Questions people ask

Is there a gambling class action payout per person, and when is the payout date?

There is no single gambling class action payout per person: each settlement pays a pro rata share of a net fund (the fund minus fees of 25 to 33 percent in the awards on record, costs and incentive awards) or a fixed share of the member's spend. The measured figures per case are on class action payout per person.

Payment followed preliminary approval by 279 to 344 days in the completed US gambling settlements measured, so a settlement approved in late 2026 is unlikely to pay before mid-2027, as how long gambling lawsuits and settlements take shows.

Can I get compensation for gambling losses?

Only through a court-made exception that exists in some countries and not others: Washington residents recovered virtual-chip purchases, German and Austrian players have obtained refund judgments from appellate courts against unlicensed casinos, and no English duty-of-care claim has succeeded. The grounds are compared under can you get gambling losses back.

Is DraftKings or FanDuel being sued, and is there a payout?

Yes, both face pending addiction, promotion and voided-bet suits, and none of those suits has produced a payout to players; the only DraftKings class settlement with a paid status is the USD 10 million NFT securities settlement, paid as of July 30, 2025. DraftKings' cases are on DraftKings lawsuits.

FanDuel's are on FanDuel lawsuits.

How can I sue a casino, including one that will not pay a jackpot?

The grounds that have worked in court are an illegal game (the Washington line), a void contract (Germany and Austria) and a statutory loss-recovery right, not negligence toward a losing player. The grounds are set out in can you sue a casino or sportsbook.

An unpaid jackpot is a separate line of cases, covered by casino or sportsbook that refuses to pay.

What proof do I need to claim in a gambling settlement?

Settled gambling cases have paid on account records, not receipts: Pulsz pays a percentage of the net purchase amount the operator already holds, the default Pulsz benefit needs no form, and High 5 pays pro rata on in-app purchases. The steps are on how to file a claim.

What this page does not cover

Treatment and recovery questions belong to the helplines box at the foot of this page.

Regulator fines that never reached a court, how to gamble, product reviews and tax advice are outside this site, and a site that charges a fee to file a gambling claim is not the official claim site named in a court order; see fake settlement and claim sites.

Sources and method

Of the 207 cases on this site, 198 carry a status read directly from an order, docket, judgment or filed complaint; the rest rest on court press releases, regulator filings and press, each marked in the case table.

Primary sources are court orders and dockets, administrator notices, regulator and attorney-general releases and the judgments of the CJEU, BGH and OGH. Benchmark trackers are leads, never sources of record, and the rules are set out under methodology.

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