The long-running lawsuit between Scientific Games and four companies that had developed an electronic shuffler appears to be over after the company agreed to pay the four entities $151.5 million.
The lawsuit dates back to 2014, the days when Shuffle Master—now a division of Scientific Games—was a standalone company. Shuffle Master and was sued by Shuffle Tech, along with DigiDeal Corp., Aces Up Gaming Inc. and Poydras-Talrick Holdings for instituting sham litigation aimed at keeping an automatic shuffler the four companies had designed off the market. The Shuffle Tech group won the suit, and was awarded $105 million in damages by a jury. That amount was tripled by the judge to $335 million.
Scientific Games was planning to appeal that ruling, but decided instead to settle.
“While we firmly believe that the jury decision was wrong, we are pleased with the outcome of the settlement and that this matter will be resolved for good,” Scientific Games Chief Legal Officer James Sottile said in a statement.
The settlement amounted to 45 percent of the original judgement and has a condition that the court vacate the judgement entered and the jury’s verdict. After that they payments would be made to the four companies. The amount that would be paid to each wasn’t revealed.
Scientific Games admits no liability in the final settlement.
