{"id":726796,"date":"2026-06-10T05:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/726796\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:18:16","slug":"how-gambling-companies-can-defend-addictive-design-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/726796\/","title":{"rendered":"How gambling companies can defend \u2018addictive design\u2019 suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Partners Michael Andolina and T. Markus Funk have authored an article on How Gambling Companies Can Defend &#8216;Addictive Design&#8217; Suits. The article analyzes whether the recent social media verdicts may provide a road map for similar claims against gambling platforms. What were once single-plaintiff cases may increasingly be positioned as class actions or mass tort actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The article is reproduced with permission from Law360. This article was first published in<a style=\"background-image:linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), linear-gradient(currentcolor, currentcolor);background-position:100% 100%, 0px 100%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:100% 0.0625rem, 0px 0.0625rem;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0, 153, 204);text-decoration:none;transition:background-size 0.5s;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/www.law360.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(1, 1, 1);font-family:Univers, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:1.75;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\">Any views expressed in this publication are strictly those of the authors and should not be attributed in any way to White &amp; Case LLP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(1, 1, 1);font-family:Univers, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:300;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:1.75;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\">This publication is provided for your convenience and does not constitute legal advice. This publication is protected by copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Partners Michael Andolina and T. Markus Funk have authored an article on How Gambling Companies Can Defend &#8216;Addictive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-726796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}