DraftKings User Gets Class Status in Suit Over Canceled NBA Bets

An Indiana resident obtained class status in his suit claiming DraftKings Inc. canceled his and 98 other users’ bets on an NBA game after they’d won.

There’s no dispute that Matthew McAfee and 98 other Indiana residents placed 140 winning bets on the same day, on the same game, through the DraftKings app, and were never paid, Judge James Patrick Hanlon of the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana said. That “provides a ‘common nucleus of operative facts and issues’ underlying all class claims and that can be proven at trial using the same evidence,” the judge ...