A Court authorized the notice because you have a right to know about a proposed Settlement of this class action lawsuit and about all of your options before the Court decides whether to give final approval to the Settlement. The Notice explains the lawsuit, the Settlement, and your legal rights.

Judge Robert S. Lasnik of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington is overseeing this class action. The lawsuit is known as Donna Reed v. Scientific Games Corp., No. 18-cv-565 (W.D. Wash.). The person who sued, Donna Reed, is one of the “Class Representatives.” The company that got sued is Scientific Games Corporation, and both Scientific Games Corporation and SciPlay Corporation agreed to settle the lawsuit.

In a class action, one or more people called class representatives sue on behalf of a group or a “class” of people who have similar claims. In a class action, the court resolves the issues for all class members, except for those who choose to exclude themselves from the class.

The lawsuit claims that Defendants violated Washington’s gambling laws and Washington’s Consumer Protection Act through the sale of virtual chips in the following social casino-style games: Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino, Hot Shot Casino, Quick Hit Slots, 88 Fortunes, or Monopoly Slots. Defendants deny all claims and that they violated any law.

The Court has not decided whether the Plaintiff or the Defendants should win this case. Instead, both sides agreed to a Settlement. That way, they avoid the uncertainties and expenses associated with ongoing litigation, and Settlement Class Members will get compensation now rather than years from now, if at all.

More information about the Settlement and the lawsuit are available in the “Court Documents” section of the Settlement Website, or by accessing the Court docket in this case, for a fee, through the Court’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system at https://ecf.wawd.uscourts.gov, or by visiting the office of the Clerk of the Court for the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Seattle Courthouse, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Court holidays.

The Court decided that everyone who fits this description and chooses not to request to be excluded is a member of the Settlement Class:

All persons who, on or before Preliminary Approval of the Settlement, played Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino, Hot Shot Casino, Quick Hit Slots, 88 Fortunes, or Monopoly Slots while located in the state of Washington. Excluded from the Settlement Class are (1) any Judge or Magistrate presiding over this action and members of their families, (2) the Defendants, Defendants’ subsidiaries, parent companies, successors, predecessors, and any entity in which the Defendants or their parents have a controlling interest and their current or former officers, directors, and employees, (3) persons who properly execute and file a timely request for exclusion from the Settlement Class, and (4) the legal representatives, successors or assigns of any such excluded persons.

If you are not sure whether you are included, you can call the Settlement Administrator at 1-866-615-0972. Or you can get free help by calling the lawyers appointed to represent class members in this case at 1-888-793-8250.

Defendants will establish a Settlement Fund totaling $24,500,000. Settlement Class Member payments, as well as the cost to administer the Settlement, the cost to inform people about the Settlement, any attorneys’ fees and costs awarded by the Court, and any incentive award to the Class Representatives approved by the Court will also come out of this fund.

Settlement Payments were calculated in accordance with the Plan of Allocation.

On November 10, 2022, Settlement Payments were distributed to Settlement Class Members who filed valid claims. If you elected to receive your payment via check, please keep in mind that checks will expire and become void 90 days after they are issued. If appropriate, funds remaining from the initial round of uncashed checks, or electronic payments that cannot be processed, may be used for a second distribution to Settlement Class Members and/or may be donated to the Legal Foundation of Washington.

In order to receive a payment, you must have filed a valid Claim Form. The deadline to submit a claim was June 24, 2022 and has passed.

You gave up your right to sue the Defendants for the claims being resolved by this Settlement. The specific claims you gave against the Defendants are described in the Settlement Agreement in Section 1.28. You “released” the Defendants and certain related parties (collectively, the “Released Parties”), described in Section 1.28 of the Settlement Agreement. Unless you excluded yourself (see Question 14), you released the claims, regardless of whether you submitted a claim or not. The Settlement Agreement is available through the “Important Documents” link on the website.

The Settlement Agreement describes the released claims with specific descriptions, so read it carefully. If you have any questions you can talk to the lawyers listed in Question 12 for free by calling 1-888-793-8250, or you can, of course, talk to your own lawyer if you have questions about what this means.

If you did nothing, you won’t get any monetary benefits from this Settlement. But, unless you excluded yourself, you won’t be able to bring or participate in any other lawsuit against the Defendants for the claims being resolved by this Settlement.

The Court has appointed a group of lawyers at the firm Edelson PC to represent the Settlement Class. Those lawyers— Jay Edelson, Rafey Balabanian, Todd Logan, Alexander Tievsky, Brandt Silver-Korn, and Amy Hausmann—are called “Class Counsel.” They are experienced in handling similar class action cases. More information about these lawyers, their law firm, and their experience is available at www.edelson.com. They believe, after conducting an extensive investigation, that the Settlement Agreement is fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of the Settlement Class. You will not be charged for these lawyers. If you want to be represented by your own lawyer in this case, you may hire one at your expense.

The Court also appointed Plaintiff Donna Reed, who has played at least one of the social casino-style games in Question 3, as one of the Class Representatives.

Class Counsel attorneys’ fees of $6,125,000.00 and costs of $33,688.74 were paid from the Settlement Fund, as awarded by the Court.

Each Class Representative was paid an “Incentive Award” from the Settlement Fund for helping to bring and settle this case, as awarded by the Court. No Class Representative received more than $10,000 as an incentive award.

The deadline to exclude yourself from the Settlement was June 24, 2022 and has passed.

No. Unless you excluded yourself, you gave up any right to sue the Defendants for the claims being resolved by this Settlement.

No. If you excluded yourself, you are not eligible to receive benefits from this Settlement.

The deadline to file an objection to this Settlement was June 24, 2022 and has passed.

The Settlement received final approval on August 12, 2022.

This website summarizes the Settlement. More details are in the Settlement Agreement. You can get a copy of Settlement Agreement on the Important Documents page. You can also get information about this case by accessing the Court docket, for a fee, through the Court’s Public Access to Court Electronic (PACER) system at https://ecf.wawd.uscourts.gov, or by visiting the office of the Clerk of the Court for the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Seattle Courthouse, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Court holidays. You may also write your questions to the Settlement Administrator at Scientific Games Settlement, c/o JND Legal Administration, PO Box 91361, Seattle, WA 98111. And you can call the Settlement Administrator at 1-866-615-0972 or Class Counsel at 1-888-793-8250, if you have any questions.

PLEASE DO NOT TELEPHONE THE COURT OR THE COURT CLERK’S OFFICE TO INQUIRE ABOUT THIS SETTLEMENT OR THE CLAIM PROCESS. All questions regarding the Settlement or claims process should be directed to the Settlement Administrator or to Class Counsel.