Sports Betting Lawsuits: DraftKings, FanDuel, PrizePicks and the Addiction and Promotion Cases

4 sports betting and daily fantasy lawsuits are on record as of 14 November 2026, 40 of them in the United States and 3 naming DraftKings, and not one of them has a settlement open to bettors.

They range from "risk-free bet" and deposit-match class actions to daily fantasy and pick'em suits, voided-bet cases and two Australian group proceedings.

Has any of this put money back in a bettor's account? Only in small, closed amounts: the 2022 daily fantasy settlement, a 2020 contest settlement and a 2025 NFT securities settlement. The courts that have ruled on promotions have split, and the two 2026 voided-bet judgments both went to DraftKings.

No open settlement: no sports betting lawsuit pays a bettor today

No sports betting lawsuit pays a bettor as of 14 November 2026: no class settlement is open, no claim form exists and no payout date is set in this category.

The only DraftKings matters that ever paid players are the USD 10 million NFT securities settlement (claims closed 21 July 2025), the 2022 daily fantasy MDL settlement (USD 720,000 in cash plus 7.28 million DK Dollars in site credit) and the 2020 contest settlement that gave USD 150 in site credit.

A directory of all gambling lawsuits by category shows where the money did flow in other areas.

No addiction suit has produced a published payout. The two settlements in that line, Fischer and D'Alessandro, were individual and confidential, and the payout estimate for every sports betting case on this page is none.

Closed claims, open claims and deadlines in every category are on open gambling class action settlements by deadline.

The numbers in brief

The 4 cases split into class actions (1), individual suits (3) and a constitutional challenge (0).

By status, 1 are filed with no ruling, 0 are at the motion-to-dismiss stage, 1 are decided by judgment, 2 are dismissed, 0 withdrawn, 0 settled-final, 0 in preliminary approval since 2020, 0 paid, 0 on appeal and 0 stayed.

Related records sit in other categories, and each owns its own cases.

Lawsuits by company

US operator groups and several foreign bookmakers are defendants in this category, and the entity match that produces each count is the named defendant or brand in the case title.

DraftKings: 3 cases and no payout open

DraftKings (DraftKings Inc. and its Crown Gaming state entities) is a defendant in 3 of the 4 cases.

They include promotion class actions over "risk-free" bets, deposit matches and VIP outreach filed between 2023 and 2026, the 2016 daily fantasy MDL, the California pick'em suits, two voided-bet cases it won in 2026 and the 2020 contest settlement.

The newest is a class action filed on 30 September 2026 (D. Mass. 1:26-cv-14462) alleging that DraftKings used a model to flood customers it classed as "elastic" with offers; DraftKings denies using AI to target customers by losses. A Louisiana class action filed on 22 October 2026 also names DraftKings, FanDuel and Flutter.

FanDuel, PrizePicks, Underdog, BetMGM and PointsBet

FanDuel (FanDuel Inc., Betfair Interactive US) is a defendant in 1 cases: the 2016 MDL, two California daily fantasy suits (Beltran withdrawn under a tolling agreement on 8 September 2025, Criswell refiled 5 December 2025), a New Jersey withdrawal-block suit and an Illinois live-scores suit whose docket shows a 29 September 2021 dismissal.

It has never paid a consumer in this category beyond the USD 375,000 cy pres donation in the MDL.

PrizePicks faces Franks and Lee in California, with a motion to dismiss pending, and a Massachusetts class action that also names Underdog and Yahoo and whose status is unverified. Underdog's California case Head is pending, Koning was withdrawn in August 2025, and a New York suit has been stayed for mediation since 1 July 2025.

The USD 17.5 million Underdog paid the New York State Gaming Commission in March 2025 was a regulatory settlement, not a court case or court figure. BetMGM's risk-free-bet case (Sale) was dismissed for arbitration per press, and PointsBet's Colorado case (filed 19 August 2022) is shown as filed.

Outside the United States: Sportsbet, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, bet365, Betfair, Goldbet

The cases come from five other countries, and none is a class action except the two Australian Fast Code suits. The Victorian Supreme Court tried Bergman v. Sportsbet from 3 August 2026 with judgment pending, and the Ladbrokes and Neds twin closed its opt-out on 8 October 2026.

Elsewhere, England dismissed Longley v. Paddy Power on 29 April 2022, Austria's OGH awarded a bettor EUR 464,806 against Goldbet (2016) and voided bets above a stake limit (2022), two Oviedo courts annulled Bet365's and Betfair's account-limitation clauses (2021), and Ladbrokes paid an Irish bettor the EUR 100,000 shop maximum after he sued (2025).

The Australian proceedings are explained in gambling class actions in Australia: Crown, Star and the pokies cases.

The promotion cases: "risk-free bets", deposit matches and the addiction theory

Class actions since 2022 attack the same three promotions: a "risk-free" or "no sweat" first bet refunded only as a bonus bet with no cash value, a deposit match that unlocks only after a multiple of the deposit is wagered, and a "$1,000 deposit bonus" that required USD 5,000 deposited and USD 25,000 wagered within 90 days. The courts have split on whether a hyperlinked terms page cures the advertising.

A complaint states one side's allegations, and only the court's orders decide anything. The mechanics above are alleged, as summarized by the courts, and no court has yet found DraftKings liable on these promotions in this record; a Massachusetts case (Scanlon, filed 8 December 2023) and the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Illinois cases are the furthest along.

What the courts have decided on "risk-free" and deposit-match promotions

Four rulings survive on the record. Youngs v. DraftKings (D.N.J., 19 November 2025) kept the fraud-based claims alive, Beyer v. DraftKings (N.D. Ill., November 2025) trimmed but did not dismiss and the Seventh Circuit refused an interlocutory appeal, Scanlon v.

DraftKings (Massachusetts Business Litigation Session, 17 February 2026) denied summary judgment on the deceptive-advertising claim, and Macek v. DraftKings (E.D. Pa., 8 April 2026) kept the Pennsylvania consumer-protection counts.

Against them, De Leon v. DraftKings (S.D.N.Y., 11 December 2025, 2025 WL 3551627, opinion text not retrieved from a court source) dismissed everything because a reasonable consumer would read the hyperlinked terms. Sale v.

BetMGM was dismissed for arbitration per press, a Caesars risk-free-bet case in the Eastern District of New York closed on 4 August 2023 on an entry we could not read, and the 2024 DraftKings case in Manhattan was dropped.

The addiction cases: owned by the gambling addiction hub, summarized here

The gambling-addiction suits against sportsbooks are a separate category on this site, and their record is short: the Third Circuit held on 28 April 2025 (Antar v.

BetMGM) that New Jersey imposes no duty of care on an operator toward a problem gambler, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed the lead class action on 23 March 2026 (Macek v.

DraftKings, Third Circuit appeal 26-1903 pending), and the only two settlements, Fischer and D'Alessandro, were individual and confidential. No federal MDL exists and no class has been certified. Every pending suit, filing and ruling in that line is kept on gambling addiction lawsuits.

Daily fantasy and pick'em: from the 2016 MDL to the California wave

The legality of paid daily fantasy has been litigated for a decade without a merits ruling against an operator.

About 80 class actions became MDL 2677 in Boston in 2016 and settled in 2021 and 2022 after most player claims were sent to arbitration, New York's Court of Appeals upheld the state's fantasy law 4-3 on 22 March 2022 (White v.

Cuomo), the Illinois Supreme Court held head-to-head contests to be skill on 16 April 2020 (Dew-Becker v. Wu), and DraftKings' own Texas declaratory suit ended without a ruling on 5 August 2026.

California is where the theory moved. The attorney general's opinion of 3 July 2025 said pick'em and draft-style fantasy are illegal sports wagering; it is an opinion, not a court order, and Underdog's petition to stop it was dismissed in October 2025.

In Zhen v. DraftKings (N.D. Cal. 3:25-cv-04618) Judge Breyer held on 29 July 2026 that claims to recover gambling losses are barred by California public policy, while claims for public injunctive relief based on deceptive advertising proceed.

DraftKings, FanDuel, PrizePicks and Underdog cases by state, as of 14 November 2026

The table lists the daily fantasy and pick'em cases by state with the last court action; a state's absence means no case in the record, not that the product is permitted.

Voided and withheld bets: what the courts have ordered

Two 2026 federal judgments upheld a sportsbook's right to void winning wagers. McAfee v. DraftKings (S.D. Ind., 22 September 2026) held that Indiana Code 4-38-5-6 lets a licensed operator cancel an accepted wager for obvious error with no deadline before the game ends, after a class of 99 bettors had been certified on 9 December 2025, and Bavas v.

DraftKings (S.D. Iowa, 8 July 2026) rejected a claim to USD 14.2 million in displayed parlay payouts voided under house rules.

Abroad the results were mixed. Austria's Supreme Court ordered a bookmaker to pay when its own rule was one-sided and unenforced, and England and Austria also upheld voiding where a stake cap or a clear mistake applied.

Whether a particular void or withdrawal block can be challenged is covered in can you sue a casino or sportsbook that refuses to pay.

State enforcement and regulators: cases in court and matters that never reached one

No attorney general has a sportsbook consumer case in this category: New York's 2015 action against DraftKings and FanDuel and its USD 6 million settlements of 25 October 2016 are kept with the regulator cases, and Baltimore's 2025 suit over bonus offers is kept with the addiction cases.

The Underdog and PrizePicks payments to New York were regulatory settlements that never reached a court.

What changed in the last 60 days

0 sports betting cases were filed and 0 changed status in the record between 15 September and 14 November 2026. The dated events, newest first:

• 23 October 2026: a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of New York recommended dismissing the horse-racing computer-assisted wagering class action with prejudice for lack of injury (2:25-cv-05962), a report the district judge has not yet adopted.
• 22 October 2026: three Louisiana bettors filed a class action in Orleans Parish (No. 2026-09867) treating sportsbook apps as defective products.
• 8 October 2026: the Ladbrokes and Neds Fast Code opt-out closed in the Victorian Supreme Court.
• 30 September 2026: the DraftKings "elastic bettor" class action was filed in Massachusetts.
• 22 September 2026: McAfee v. DraftKings ended in summary judgment for DraftKings.

The next dates are the Fourth Circuit argument in the Baltimore appeal on 8 December 2026, the pending Third Circuit appeal in Macek, and the judgment in Bergman v. Sportsbet, which could land any day. Every dated move is logged on what changed in gambling litigation in the last 60 days.

The legal theory in two paragraphs

Every US sports betting consumer case runs into the same wall: once a state has legalized the product, a bettor cannot recover losses as such, so the suits plead deception (a promotion's terms were hidden), breach of contract (a voided wager) or illegality (a contest that is really sports wagering).

The courts have rejected addiction-as-product-defect and duty-of-care theories in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia's Statute of Anne suit against five sportsbooks was dismissed with prejudice on 26 March 2026, with an appeal noticed on 9 April 2026 per DraftKings' filing.

The grounds that have worked are collected in can you sue a casino or sportsbook: grounds that have worked.

Deception claims rest on consumer-protection statutes such as N.Y. General Business Law 349 and 350, the Pennsylvania UTPCPL, the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act and M.G.L. c. 93A, while illegality claims use loss-recovery statutes such as N.Y. General Obligations Law 5-419 and 720 ILCS 5/28-8. In California, operators answer equitable claims with the Sonner adequate-remedy defense, and plaintiffs have refiled in state court. The statutes are listed in gambling loss recovery statutes by US state.

Arbitration: sent to arbitration or kept in court

Arbitration decides fewer sportsbook cases than social casino or sweepstakes cases in this record: the daily fantasy MDL sent most player claims to arbitration on 27 November 2019, Sale v.

BetMGM was dismissed because users had agreed to individual arbitration (per press, order not retrieved), and the 2025 promotion cases against DraftKings were decided on motions to dismiss without an arbitration ruling in the record. The clause-by-clause pattern is on gambling cases and arbitration clauses.

Settlements, judgments and orders to date

The money record for US bettors is three DraftKings settlements, USD 720,000 in cash plus 7.28 million DK Dollars in the 2022 MDL, USD 102,000 mostly in fees for the 2020 contest case, and USD 10 million in the NFT securities case, while the two 2026 judgments, McAfee and Bavas, both confirmed the operator's right to void the wagers.

Every case we track

The table lists all 4 sports betting and daily fantasy cases in the record as of 14 November 2026, with court and docket, filing date, status and its date, and the primary source we read.

The same rows are available as a spreadsheet from open data.

Questions people ask

Has anyone sued DraftKings or FanDuel, and is there a settlement?

Yes: 3 cases in this category name DraftKings and 1 name FanDuel, and the only settlements that paid players are the 2022 daily fantasy MDL, the 2020 contest case and the 2025 NFT securities case, all closed. Every case list and ruling against DraftKings is on DraftKings lawsuits.

FanDuel's record is shorter and has no payout beyond the MDL's cy pres donation, and its cases are listed on FanDuel lawsuits.

Can I sue a sportsbook for gambling addiction?

Individual suits are being filed in Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, but every court ruling so far says no duty of care exists (Antar, Third Circuit, 28 April 2025; De Leon, S.D.N.Y., 11 December 2025; Macek, E.D. Pa., 23 March 2026, on appeal), and the two settlements were individual and confidential. The full line of cases is on gambling addiction lawsuits.

What is the sports betting lawsuit payout per person?

There is no payout per person because there is no settlement: no sports betting class action has a fund, a claim form or a payment date, and the per-claimant amounts of the 2022 MDL were never published. What past settlements paid per person is compared in class action payout per person: what gambling settlements actually paid.

If a settlement ever opens, the choice between joining, opting out and suing alone is explained in join, opt out or sue alone.

Can a sportsbook void my winning bet or refuse a withdrawal?

Courts have upheld voiding for obvious error where a statute or the house rules allow it (McAfee, Indiana, 22 September 2026; Bavas, Iowa, 8 July 2026; Longley, England, 29 April 2022) and have ordered payment where the operator's own rule was one-sided or unenforced (Goldbet, Austria, 30 May 2016), and the Michigan Supreme Court held on 22 July 2025 that a patron may bring such a claim in court. The routes are explained in can you sue a casino or sportsbook that refuses to pay.

What this page does not cover

Whether DraftKings or FanDuel is legal in a given state is a licensing question, not a lawsuit, and this site answers it only through the court orders recorded on each state's page under gambling lawsuits in the United States.

The federal statutes behind the question, from the Wire Act to the Supreme Court's 2018 sports betting decision, are explained in what the Wire Act, UIGEA and PASPA actually decided.

Disputes between leagues, players' unions and sportsbooks over names, likenesses and licenses are industry disputes and sit under industry disputes in gambling.

Sources and method

Of the 4 cases on this page, 4 carry a status read directly from an order, opinion or filed complaint; the rest rest on dockets as indexed, court case pages and press, each flagged in the table, and the status of several older US suits (Gutman, Manganaro, Melnick, Avila, Curran) is unverified and shown as filed. See the methodology and corrections.

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