{"id":139,"date":"2020-05-01T17:59:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/?p=139"},"modified":"2022-07-20T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T22:01:21","slug":"daily-fantasy-sports-to-be-legal-dfs-losers-gambling-loss-recovery-act-claim-rejected-illinois-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/2020\/05\/01\/daily-fantasy-sports-to-be-legal-dfs-losers-gambling-loss-recovery-act-claim-rejected-illinois-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Fantasy Sports to Be Legal, DFS Loser\u2019s Gambling Loss Recovery Act Claim Rejected: Illinois Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<i>Dew-Becker v. Wu<\/i>, 2020 IL 124472 (April 16, 2020), the Illinois Supreme Court, finally and definitively, has put to rest the question of whether DFS (daily fantasy sports) is unlawful in Illinois. In addition, as a result of the decision, the DFS industry dodged the potential impact of tens of thousands of lawsuits that otherwise could have been lodged against winning DFS players in Illinois by DFS contest losers seeking to recoup their losses under the Illinois Loss Recovery Act (LRA)(720 ILCS 5\/28-8).<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em>, please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/illinois_supreme_court_finds_daily_fantasy_sports_legal_rejects_dfs_losers_gambling_loss_0520.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0Dew-Becker v. Wu, 2020 IL 124472 (April 16, 2020), the Illinois Supreme Court, finally and definitively, has put to rest the question of whether DFS (daily fantasy sports) is unlawful in Illinois. In addition, as a result of the decision, the DFS industry dodged the potential impact of tens of thousands of lawsuits that otherwise &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/2020\/05\/01\/daily-fantasy-sports-to-be-legal-dfs-losers-gambling-loss-recovery-act-claim-rejected-illinois-supreme-court\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Daily Fantasy Sports to Be Legal, DFS Loser\u2019s Gambling Loss Recovery Act Claim Rejected: Illinois Supreme Court&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[330,331,332,334,333],"ppma_author":[303],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-daily-fantasy-sports","tag-dfa","tag-illinois","tag-illinois-loss-recovery-act","tag-loss-recovery"],"authors":[{"term_id":303,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/sportslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}