violated at least two<\/a> Washington State laws \u2013 the Recovery of Money Lost at Gambling Act (RMLGA) and the Washington Consumer Protection Act.<\/p>\nManasa Thimmegowda’s suit against Big Fish is more than a year old. Both Kater and Thimmegowda and another presumed litigant \u2013 Suzie Kelly \u2013 are specifically named in the online gaming company’s terms of service. Thimmegowda claims to have lost $3,000 playing Big Fish games on her iPhone, starting in 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy operating Big Fish Casino and other similar online gambling games, defendants have violated Washington law and illegally profited from tens of thousands of customers,\u201d according to her suit. “Accordingly, [the] plaintiff, on behalf of herself and a class of similarly situated individuals, brings this lawsuit to recover her losses and to obtain the appropriate relief.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Churchill Downs and Aristocrat Leisure reached, in principle, an agreement to settle a pair of lawsuits stemming from the racetrack operator’s sale of Big Fish Games to the gaming machine producer in 2018. The companies are close to settling the Kater v. Churchill Downs, Inc., and Thimmegowda v. Big Fish Games, Inc. But the accords […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":136761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33810,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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