Lawsuits Over Google's Casino-Style Apps Transferred to California's Northern District
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A federal judicial panel has ordered that nearly 30 lawsuits filed over Google’s casino-style apps be transferred to the Northern District of California.
In a Thursday order, the U.S. Judicial on Multidistrict Litigation sent the cases to U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, who is overseeing similar lawsuits against Apple in San Jose, California. The lawsuits allege that the apps, available on the Google Play Store, constitute unlawful gambling because they operate like slots, poker, blackjack and bingo.
“These putative class actions present common factual questions arising from the allegation that Google, through the Google Play Store, promotes, facilitates, and profits from simulated casino-style games that involve gambling in violation of state laws,” wrote MDL Panel Chairwoman Karen Caldwell, of the Eastern District of Kentucky. “The complaints also include the same list of the 200 ‘most downloaded’ casino-style games in the Google Play Store as among the games at issue.”
