Stake.us (Sweepsteaks) Lawsuits: Every Case, What Settled, and Whether There Is a Payout

0 court cases name Stake.us or its operator Sweepsteaks Limited as of 14 November 2026: 0 player class actions, 0 suits by a city or a state, 0 individual suits, a petition by Stake itself and a French blocking order.

Has any of it produced money for a player? No. The only Stake.us case with a final result is a Massachusetts arbitration award confirmed on 16 October 2026, which upheld Stake's arbitration terms rather than awarding anything to a player.

Status is the court's last order; a filed complaint is one side's allegations. Checked 14 November 2026.

Key facts: entities, brands, parent and the open-settlement answer

The table gives the entities as the complaints name them; Stake.us is pleaded as a "mirror image" of Stake.com, an allegation, not a finding.

Is there a Stake.us settlement or payout right now?

No. No Stake.us case has settled, no court has certified a class, no claim form exists and no payout estimate can be given as of 14 November 2026.

A complaint states one side's allegations, and only the court's orders decide anything; every order so far has been about where the dispute is heard. The only open US gambling claims, 5 in all, are against other operators and are tracked under sweepstakes casino lawsuits.

Those claims are the Pulsz six-state settlement (to 30 November 2026), the High 5 Larsen verdict (to 4 January 2027) and the New York Attorney General's VGW assurance (to 31 August 2027); see the open gambling class action settlements by deadline tracker.

Every lawsuit against Stake.us (0 cases, CSV)

The table lists every case in the record that names a Stake.us entity, with court and docket, filing date, status and its date, and whether the status was read from a court document.

The same records download as CSV from the open data page under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Class actions: player suits in many states and where each stands

Players have filed class actions against Sweepsteaks Limited in many states since February 2025, most of them pleading that Stake Cash sold with Gold Coin bundles is a wager and that losses are recoverable under a state gambling-loss statute. The table runs newest first and gives only what the record shows.

Urdan alleges that USD 20 buys 20.05 Stake Cash, according to a copy of the complaint hosted by counsel. Two further player suits, in Mississippi and New Jersey, are individual suits known from docket indexes only. The statutes behind all of these are collected in gambling loss recovery statutes by US state.

Drake and Adin Ross as co-defendants: Missouri, New Mexico, Virginia

Three class actions name Aubrey Drake Graham and Adin Ross with Sweepsteaks Limited as promoters: Killham in Missouri (filed 27 October 2025), Torres in New Mexico (23 December 2025) and Ridley in Virginia (31 December 2025), and none has reached a ruling on the promoters' liability.

In Ridley, Judge Brinkema dismissed Kick Streaming on 12 June 2026 and compelled the players to arbitration on 30 July 2026. In Torres, the court partially lifted its stay on 17 August 2026 so Drake and Ross could file motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction.

Killham was removed to federal court on 23 December 2025, and its status since then is not confirmed in the court record.

Promoter cases belong to advertising and marketing lawsuits against gambling operators.

City and state enforcement: Los Angeles, Baltimore, Florida

Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto filed the first civil enforcement action by a US government body against an online sweepstakes casino on 28 August 2025 (People v. Sweepsteaks Ltd., Los Angeles Superior Court, case number 25STCV25304 per the filing firm's announcement), naming 23 defendants from the founders to the game suppliers.

Kick Streaming, covered on the Kick Streaming Pty Ltd. lawsuits page, is a co-defendant. The Evolution defendants left the case on 21 August 2026 per defense counsel's announcement and the court tracker; the order itself is not retrieved.

Baltimore sued six operators, Stake.us among them, on 4 March 2026 (Baltimore City, C-24-CV-26-001646), and the case was removed to the District of Maryland as 1:26-cv-01591; the removal date is not confirmed in the court record. Pulsz, another defendant, is covered in the Pulsz (Yellow Social Interactive) lawsuits hub.

The Florida Attorney General sued Stake.us, Easygo, Kick, the two founders and the payment firms Praxis and Breeze Labs on 19 August 2026 in Hillsborough County, seeking USD 10,000 per willful violation under the state's deceptive trade practices act.

The case number is not confirmed in the court record. The same morning the Attorney General filed a companion suit described on the VGW (Chumba Casino, LuckyLand Slots, Global Poker) lawsuits page.

Stake as plaintiff, the mass-arbitration intake and the French blocking order

Stake has been a plaintiff once in the record: on 10 June 2026 Sweepsteaks Limited petitioned the Northern District of Illinois (1:26-cv-06840, Judge Kennelly) under the Federal Arbitration Act to confirm an AAA award against an Illinois player, the first such petition by a sweepstakes operator. The award amount is not in a retrieved document.

The ClassAction U intake for Stake.us, updated 21 April 2026, is an intake, not a filed proceeding; no demands, forum or awards are public.

The Paris court's president ordered internet providers to block stake.com on 13 July 2021 at the request of the French gambling regulator ANJ. The wider French record is in gambling lawsuits in France.

What changed in the last 60 days

0 Stake.us case changed status between 15 September and 14 November 2026, and none was filed.

• 16 October 2026: Judge Stearns confirms the AAA award in Moreira and denies the motion to vacate (D. Mass. 1:25-cv-11481-RGS, Doc. 41).

No hearing date is in the record. The Eighth Circuit briefing in Wolters (the appellant's brief was due 10 September 2026, later entries not retrieved) and the pending arbitration motions in Urdan and Krivatch are the items to watch, and the what changed in gambling litigation in the last 60 days tracker records each move.

How courts treated Stake's arbitration clause

Courts have sent Stake.us players to individual arbitration in California, Massachusetts and Virginia and refused to do so once, in Minnesota, where Judge Tunheim held on 1 July 2026 that the terms containing the clause may be void under the state's gambling statutes and that Stake's screenshots did not prove assent (2026 WL 1894240).

Settlement Insight, a secondary tracker, counts ten sweepstakes rulings sending players to arbitration and six keeping them in court as of 13 November 2026; that is its tally, not ours. See gambling cases and arbitration clauses.

Entities and brands on this page

The complaints name the operator under several spellings, and this page treats them as one group.

Questions people ask

Has anyone sued Stake.us, and is there a class action to join?

Yes: 0 class actions are on record, but none has a certified class, a settlement or a claim form, so there is nothing to join or file as of 14 November 2026. Whether to join, opt out or sue alone is in join, opt out or sue alone.

The process from filing to payment is in how a gambling class action works, step by step.

Can I get my money back from Stake.us?

No court has ordered Stake.us to refund any player; the class actions ask for refunds under state loss-recovery statutes, and the Los Angeles and Florida suits ask for restitution, but none has been decided. What courts have ordered elsewhere is in can you get gambling losses back.

Is Stake suing Drake?

No. Drake and Adin Ross are co-defendants with Sweepsteaks Limited in the Missouri, New Mexico and Virginia class actions, sued as promoters; no court has ruled on their liability, and in New Mexico their motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction were allowed to proceed on 17 August 2026.

Which states have banned sweepstakes casinos, and where are the other operators' cases?

State bans are statutes, not court orders, and this page lists only court cases; the bans by state with their dates in force are kept in sweepstakes casino bans by state. The Baltimore co-defendants whose cases carry the open claims are covered in High 5 Games lawsuits.

What this page does not cover

Whether Stake.us is "legit", pays out or lets you withdraw is out of this site's scope; so is a Stake.com matter in Brazil that names a different entity. The legality of the model has its own guide, the sweepstakes casino model and why courts are testing it.

Sources and method

Of the 0 cases on this page, 0 carry a status read directly from a court order; the rest rest on docket indexes, counsel's filed copies and trade press. Primary sources are the GovInfo orders in Wolters, Moreira and Torres and the ANJ release. See methodology and corrections.

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