Baltimore's March 2026 complaint challenged dual-currency play at seven sweepstakes casino brands and sought civil penalties and an injunction.
Baltimore filed a consumer-protection complaint on March 4, 2026, against six operator groups tied to seven sweepstakes casino brands. The court-stamped pleading is case C-24-CV-26-001646.
The original caption linked VGW Holdings to Chumba Casino and LuckyLand Slots; B2Services to McLuck; Yellow Social to Pulsz; Sweepsteaks to Stake.us; PTT to High 5; and Blazesoft to Fortune Coins.
Baltimore alleged that the dual-currency platforms amounted to illegal online gambling and violated the city's Consumer Protection Ordinance. The City argued that payments for one virtual currency, paired with promotional currency used in games and redeemed for prizes, supplied the payment, chance and prize elements of gambling.
Those are allegations, not court findings.
What Baltimore asked the court to do
The City requested the maximum available civil penalties, plus an injunction stopping the challenged platforms from operating in Baltimore or accepting transactions from residents. It also requested restitution and disgorgement.
The case later moved to federal court
A public federal docket mirror shows that defendants removed the case to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on April 23, 2026. Baltimore filed a motion to send it back to state court on May 21.
That docket copy was last retrieved on June 10, 2026. It records those procedural steps but no merits ruling, decision on the remand motion or final outcome.