DraftKings, FanDuel Class Actions Sent to Massachusetts

Feb. 5, 2016, 5:00 AM UTC

Eighty separate class actions against DraftKings Inc. and/or FanDuel Inc. will be consolidated and transferred to federal court in Boston, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered Feb. 4 (In Re: Daily Fantasy Sports Litigation, J.P.M.L., 2677, 2/4/16; In Re: DraftKings Inc. Fantasy Sports Litigation, J.P.M.L., 2677, 2/4/16; In Re: FanDuel Inc. Fantasy Sports Litigation, J.P.M.L., 2677, 2/4/16).

The cases allege that the two leading daily fantasy sports companies:

  • allowed employees with access to insider data on contests to use that information to compete on each other’s sites;
  • violated state gambling laws; and ...


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