GamblingLawsuits.org runs on six rules that no page may break, and the first three can be checked by anyone in a minute: no link to a gambling operator anywhere, no advertising or affiliate deal, no law-firm form or referral.
GamblingLawsuits.org is a non-commercial project. It takes no money from operators, affiliates or law firms.
Why these rules exist
The rules exist for one reader: the person holding a settlement notice, a frozen account or a lost sum who wants to know what a court has decided, without guessing whose interest a page serves. The site tracks all gambling lawsuits by category for that reader.
Much of what ranks for these questions is published by law firms seeking clients or by sites that sell leads to them, and in Germany and Austria litigation funders take 32 to 47 percent of what a player recovers.
The six rules
The six rules are stated here in full so that a reader can hold the site to them.
- No operator links. No link to a gambling operator, bookmaker, casino, sweepstakes or prediction-market site, not even as a source.
- No advertising, affiliates or law-firm money. No advertising, no affiliate deals, no law-firm lead forms, no "find a lawyer" referral and no sponsored content; a reader who needs a lawyer is pointed to the class counsel named in the docket or to the bar association referral service.
- Open data. Every case table is downloadable as CSV under CC BY 4.0 with a stable case id and a change log; see open data.
- A method, a correction log and a funding statement. The methodology page says how every case is sourced, the corrections page lists each fix with its date, and the funding statement sits at the top of this page.
- No impersonation. The site never takes the look of a court, an administrator or a regulator, never hosts a claim form, and shows every payout as a payout estimate.
- A named legal entity. The legal entity is shown on the imprint, and it reads "entity to be confirmed" until it is set.
What the rules look like on a case page
Every payout figure on the site is a payout estimate with its formula, and as of 14 November 2026 the US consumer settlements accepting claims are the Pulsz six-state settlement to 30 November 2026, the High 5 Washington settlement to 4 January 2027 and the New York Attorney General's VGW redemption to 31 August 2027. They are listed by deadline in open gambling class action settlements by deadline.
A settlement is described from the court's notice and the administrator's official claim site, never from the operator's own pages, and the page says that filing is free and that this site is neither a law firm nor the administrator. Each claims process is run by one of the settlement administrators handling gambling cases.
What this site is not
This site is not a court, not a settlement administrator, not a regulator and not a law firm, and it is built so that nobody can mistake it for one: no seal, no case lookup that pretends to be a docket, no form that pretends to be a claim.
Real claims go through the administrator's official site, as how to file a claim in a gambling settlement shows.
Who may pay for the site, and who may not
No gambling operator, affiliate, law firm, litigation funder or claims platform pays for any part of this site, and none of them can buy a listing, a link, a ranking or a correction. How the rule shapes wording and corrections is set out in the editorial policy and independence page.
Who does pay is answered on the imprint once the legal entity is confirmed; until then no sponsor is named.
Where to go if you need help
A reader who needs a lawyer is pointed to the class counsel named in the docket or to the bar association's referral service of the state or country, and a reader in difficulty with gambling is pointed to the helplines of their country, not to a claims service.
In Germany and Austria that means the bar's lawyer search and the consumer advice centers. See gambling helplines by country.
Questions people ask
Why does the site not link to casinos or betting sites, even as sources?
Because a link is a recommendation whether it is meant as one or not, and because nothing on a case page needs an operator's website. The court record, the regulator's release and the administrator's notice say everything that can be stated.
Is GamblingLawsuits.org funded by donations or grants?
The charter says who may not pay: operators, affiliates and law firms; funding is shown on the imprint once the legal entity is confirmed, and until then the site makes no claim about donors or grants.
Can I download the whole record?
Yes: every case table is downloadable as CSV under CC BY 4.0 with a stable case id and a change log, and a citation names GamblingLawsuits.org, the case id and the as-of date. See open data.
Does the charter apply to the German-language pages?
Yes, without exception: the German pages carry no form, no success rate, no recommended firm or funder, and point readers who need a lawyer to the bar's lawyer search and the consumer advice centers. See Online Casino Geld zurück: was die Gerichte entschieden haben.
Why does the site never recommend a law firm or a litigation funder?
Because a recommendation would be a paid or an unpaid referral and both break the charter; the record explains how funders' deals work so that a reader can judge an offer, and stops there. See litigation funders and online casino claims in Germany.
Sources and method
The examples on this page are cases from the record as of 14 November 2026, and what the site is is set out on the about GamblingLawsuits.org page. How personal data is handled is described in the privacy policy.