198 of the 207 cases on record as of 14 November 2026 carry a status read directly from a court order or docket, and every other status names the regulator release, administrator notice or filing it rests on. This page explains what a figure on a case page rests on.
One rule covers the site: a date, docket, amount or deadline that is not in a source is not stated. Where a point cannot be confirmed in a primary document, the page says so instead of guessing.
Where every fact comes from
The record is built from court documents first: the docket, the complaint, orders and opinions, the settlement agreement and the preliminary and final approval orders, read on the court's own system or on a public mirror of it. Every case in all gambling lawsuits by category names its court and docket number.
553 source entries stand behind the record, 386 of them primary documents, and every entry carries the date it was retrieved. A value is stated only with the source it came from, and the page says which of the three classes below that source belongs to.
Primary sources, secondary sources and leads
Three classes of source appear on a case page, and the page always says which one a value rests on.
| Class | Examples | How it appears on the page |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Docket, order, opinion, settlement agreement, approval order, administrator notice, regulator release, exchange filing | Stated, linked and dated |
| Secondary | Court press release, wire report, trade press, a PACER copy hosted by press | Stated with attribution and flagged as secondary |
| Leads | Law-firm case trackers, settlement-news sites, forums | Never the sole source of a status; cited as "per the court tracker" and linked with nofollow |
Courts, regulators, legislatures and EU institutions are linked as followed sources, while administrator sites and press are linked with nofollow. No gambling operator is ever linked, not even as a source.
The status words and what they mean
Every case carries one of thirteen status words and the date it was last confirmed, and the status of a pending case is a step in the procedure, never a prediction of its outcome. A complaint states one side's allegations; only the court's orders decide anything. A docket entry is a step, not a decision.
The status is a step in the procedure, never a prediction; a payout exists only at claims-open, claims-closed and paid, and is a payout estimate until paid.
Status vocabulary
The words are used exactly as in the data; the table says what each means in plain language.
| Status word | Plain meaning | What it means for a claimant |
|---|---|---|
| filed | A complaint has been filed and no court ruling has decided anything yet | No claim exists |
| motion-to-dismiss | The defendant has asked the court to end the case and the court has not ruled | No claim exists |
| certified | The court has allowed the case to proceed as a class action | No claim exists |
| settled-preliminary | The parties agreed to settle and the court has preliminarily approved the deal | No claim exists |
| settled-final | The court has granted final approval of the settlement | No claim exists |
| judgment | The court has entered a judgment | No claim exists |
| dismissed | The court has ended the case without a trial verdict for the plaintiff | No claim exists |
| appealed | A higher court is reviewing a ruling | No claim exists |
| claims-open | The settlement is accepting claims | Claim form open, deadline shown |
| claims-closed | The claim deadline has passed | Deadline passed |
| paid | Payments have been made | Payments made, amounts as reported |
| withdrawn | The plaintiff has ended the case voluntarily | No claim exists |
| stayed | The court has paused the case | No claim exists |
Only claims-open means a claim form is open, and every amount is a payout estimate until payments are made. How a gambling case moves from complaint to payment is laid out in how a gambling class action works, step by step.
How a payout estimate is calculated
Every payout figure on this site is a payout estimate: the fund, minus attorney fees, costs, administration, incentive awards and taxes, divided among the valid claimants in proportion to their recognized spend or loss, with the caps and tiers of the settlement applied, and no settlement in the record publishes an average.
Approved gambling settlements show where the fee share lands: 25 percent of the fund in the Washington social-casino settlements against Big Fish, Playtika, Huuuge and Zynga, and 29.3 percent in Benson v.
DoubleDown. What gambling settlements actually paid per person is set out in class action payout per person, and no page here says "you will receive".
What this site does not state
80 points across 30 cases could not be confirmed in a primary document as of 14 November 2026, and each one is listed on its case page as open instead of being stated as fact. When two sources conflict, the court record wins and the conflict is noted in the log of corrections.
German and Austrian first-instance refund judgments run into the thousands and are not listed one by one; the record carries every BGH, OGH, OLG and CJEU decision and the published first-instance statistics, and it never says that all courts rule for players. The German picture is in gambling lawsuits in Germany.
How often a case is re-checked
A case is re-checked on every date in its calendar, the next hearing, the response deadline, the claim deadline and the final approval hearing, and every case with open claims is re-checked weekly; the date of the last check is printed on the page.
A judgment moves a page the same day: the UK duty-of-care line was updated on 13 November 2026, when Ashton v Betfair failed like Calvert (2008) and Gibson (Court of Appeal, 2025), as explained in UK gambling compensation claims.
A newer court order, administrator notice or regulator release beats anything on this site, and when one appears the record is corrected first and the pages follow. The running list of recent changes is what changed in gambling litigation in the last 60 days.
Completeness: what the record covers and where it is thin
Completeness is defined per jurisdiction: every class action and mass claim, every regulator, state or attorney-general case that reached a court, every appellate, supreme or EU-level judgment on gambling and every published settlement, plus representative first-instance cases where single judgments run into the thousands. Coverage is shown per jurisdiction in gambling lawsuits by country.
The record is compared against the standard lists of the field, such as court lists, regulator registers and academic case lists, and the entries it still lacks are published rather than hidden. Anyone can see the gaps and the full case tables through open data: download the case database.
Questions people ask
Why does a case page say "not confirmed in the court record"?
Because the value rests on a press report, a law-firm page or a tracker and the court document behind it has not been read; the page shows the value with its attribution and lists the point as open until an order, docket entry or notice confirms it.
Why is every payout figure an estimate?
Because the amount per person depends on how many valid claims are filed, which nobody knows before the deadline, and on the fee and cost awards the court approves afterward. The full formula and what settlements actually paid are in class action payout per person.
Why are German and Austrian first-instance judgments not listed one by one?
Because they run into the thousands and a list would be neither complete nor useful; the record carries the appellate line (BGH, OGH, OLG, CJEU), representative first-instance cases and the published statistics. The refund litigation is covered in online casino refund litigation in Germany and Austria.
Where does the Kalshi status by state come from?
From the controlling court or regulator order in each state, with its date; the status is the order (injunction in force, stayed, on appeal), never a flat "legal" or "illegal". The state-by-state list is Kalshi court status in every state.
How can the record be cited or reused?
Every case table is downloadable 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. The files are on the open data page.
Sources and method
This page describes the rules applied to every case on the site; the counts on it are rendered from the case record as of 14 November 2026, and the independence rules that sit behind the method are in the editorial policy and independence page.
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