Gambling Lawsuits by Country

207 gambling lawsuits from 23 jurisdictions are on record as of November 14, 2026, 40 of them in the United States and 15 in Germany. The record is organized country by country, then by US state, and every case page sits under exactly one jurisdiction.

Counts are cases in the record on the build day, not all cases ever filed; the status of 198 of 207 cases was read from the court record, the rest is flagged.

Where a consumer claim is open right now

5 matters accept a consumer claim as of November 14, 2026: the Pulsz six-state settlement (to November 30, 2026), the High 5 Games Washington settlement (to January 4, 2027, per the administrator's site), the Riverside Resort & Casino data breach settlement (to January 4, 2027), the New York Attorney General's VGW Sweeps Coin redemption (an administrative settlement, not a court case, open one year after its August 31, 2026 effective date) and a Maltese regulator process for BTM Entertainment players with no published deadline.

Everywhere else the record holds judgments, dismissals and pending cases, not payouts. The categories behind these matters are listed under all gambling lawsuits by category.

The open gambling class action settlements by deadline tracker keeps them in date order.

How to read a country page

Every country page opens with a summary box, then answers whether players have recovered losses in that country's courts, then lists class actions, regulator cases and appellate rulings in dated order.

A complaint states one side's allegations, only the court's orders decide anything, and every status carries its as-of date. Sourcing rules are set out in how every case is sourced and checked.

• Summary box: legal frame, case count, last high-court ruling and its date
• Can players recover losses in that country's courts
• Class actions and mass claims
• Regulator cases in court
• High-court timeline with dated pending decisions

Every country in the record

The record covers 23 jurisdictions, from 40 US cases to 0 in Cyprus, and 155 of them have their own country page.

United States: federal courts, 16 states and the District of Columbia

The United States holds 40 cases across federal courts, 16 states and the District of Columbia, with California (6), New York (3), Illinois (1) and Washington (8) in front. Sweepstakes casino and prediction-market suits are the largest categories.

The Kalshi petitions are before the U.S. Supreme Court (No. 26-299 among them), with responses due December 7, 2026, and the state pages open with the controlling order and its date. The full ranking is on the gambling lawsuits by US state tracker.

Germany, Austria and the Court of Justice: the refund line

Germany (15), Austria (15) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (27) carry the online-casino refund line: individual judgments through the Landgerichte, Oberlandesgerichte, the BGH and the OGH, with no settlement, no claim form and no administrator.

The BGH announced its lead decision I ZR 216/25 for January 28, 2027. The CJEU decided C-440/23 on April 16, 2026, and judgment is due on November 19, 2026 in C-683/24, the Maltese Bill 55 reference. The German-language guide, Online Casino Geld zurück: was die Gerichte entschieden haben, follows the appellate line in German.

United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada

The United Kingdom (14), Australia (5), Canada (5), New Zealand (0) and Ireland (1) share a common-law record in which duty-of-care claims have failed and the money has moved through shareholder class actions and regulator penalties.

Ashton v Betfair ([2026] EWHC 2935 (KB), November 13, 2026) was dismissed after Calvert v William Hill (Court of Appeal, December 16, 2008) and Gibson v Betfair ([2025] EWCA Civ 1589, December 8, 2025).

In Australia, Crown's two shareholder settlements (AUD 125 million and AUD 72.5 million) sit beside AUSTRAC v Star, where the Federal Court ordered AUD 260 million on October 28, 2026 ([2026] FCA 1606), per the ASX announcement and press; the judgment text was not retrieved.

The Supreme Court of Canada heard No. 42141 on October 7, 2026 and has reserved judgment.

The rest of Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa

Sweden (12), France (11), Brazil (6), the Netherlands (10), Curaçao (6), India (4) and Italy (6) each hold more than 25 cases, most of them regulator sanctions tested in court and licensing disputes rather than consumer suits.

Sweden's Högsta domstolen (T 607-24, July 1, 2025) ordered Betsson to repay EUR 527,395, the net losses of a player's VIP period. Brazil's Supremo Tribunal Federal returned RE 966177 (Tema 924) to the docket on November 12, 2026, and no resumption date was set as of November 14, 2026.

Countries by case count, as of November 14, 2026

Counts are read from the record on the build day; a jurisdiction appears when at least one case in the record sits in its courts.

Jurisdictions in the record without a country page yet

Some jurisdictions hold 112 cases between them and have no country page yet: the Philippines (10), Singapore (5), Portugal (0), Macau (2), Greece (0), Hungary (0) and Cyprus (0).

Their cases are reachable through the category hubs and open data: download the case database.

Questions people ask

Can players get gambling losses back in my country?

In most countries the answer from the courts is no, with court-made exceptions in Germany and Austria (void contracts with unlicensed operators), one Swedish Supreme Court repayment order and the US virtual-chip settlements. The country page states the position with the ruling and its date, and can you get gambling losses back, country by country compares them.

Why does Germany have so many cases and no settlement?

German refund claims are individual suits decided one by one, so the record counts judgments, not a fund. The appellate line is described on online casino refund litigation in Germany and Austria, and the lead decision is due from the BGH on January 28, 2027.

Is Kalshi legal in my state?

The answer for any state is a court order with a date, not a yes or no, and the state pages open with that order. The state-by-state table is kept on Kalshi court status in every state.

What this page does not cover

This page ranks nothing, rates no country as lenient or strict, and does not say where gambling is legal or how to gamble; it lists court cases. Addiction help by country sits on gambling helplines by country.

Sources and method

Of the 207 cases behind this page, 198 carry a status read directly from an order, docket or filed judgment; the rest rest on court press releases, regulator decisions and flagged secondary sources, marked case by case. Errors are logged on the corrections page.

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