While most Southern Nevada’s casino and gaming equipment manufacturing companies relished a profitable 2024, many also found themselves in courtrooms more often than they wanted.
And, in most cases, with the wheels of justice turning slowly, they’ll continue to be there fighting the same cases in 2025 as well.
One manufacturer was told by a judge to remove 2,200 of its slot machines from casino floors — and that has spawned a potential class action from investors angry that their shares in the company have lost value.
After Las Vegas-based Light & Wonder in September was ordered by U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro to remove its Dragon Train-themed slot machines from North America casino floors because they seemed too much like Australia-based Aristocrat Technologies Inc.’s Dragon Link and Lightning Link games, the company went to work substituting them with other Light & Wonder products.
