A Brussels criminal court acquitted Nationale Loterij and Jannie Haek in a case over its Woohoo online instant lottery games. The lottery said the court found the games fell within the legal framework applying to it and were not covered by gambling legislation.
The ruling supports Nationale Loterij’s position that the games do not require a gambling-law licence.
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A Marburg court acquitted a 28-year-old of running commercial gambling and fined two co-defendants for attempted obstruction of justice. The two men, aged 47 and 59, received 25 daily rates of €30 each. The case concerned table gaming machines without PTB seals at a bar in Bahnhofstraße.
A court in Marburg acquitted a 28-year-old man of jointly running commercial gambling and fined two co-defendants for jointly attempting to obstruct justice, according to the court's ruling. The two men, aged 47 and 59, each received a fine of 25 daily rates of €30. The case concerned two table gaming machines without a PTB seal at a bar in Bahnhofstraße.
A court in Wangen, Germany, acquitted a 64-year-old woman accused of using online gambling sites without German authorisation, the report said. The prosecution sought acquittal, concluding that she had not knowingly committed an offence; the case concerned lottery and sports-betting activity during 2023.
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court suspended its hearing on a challenge to municipal laws governing lotteries and sports betting on 4 November 2026. President Edson Fachin agreed to consider the case alongside other proceedings on betting, lotteries and games of chance; the court has set no date for resuming the hearing.
On Wednesday the 4th, the full bench of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) halted its consideration of ADPF 1212 once the report had been read and the oral arguments delivered. The court has not fixed a date for the proceedings to pick up again.
The Catania review court overturned the order validating the seizure of goods from a shop in Acireale investigated over alleged illegal betting collection. It sent the records to prosecutors for the immediate return of the seized property. The ruling concerned the seizure and was not a final decision on the allegations.
The Catania review court has annulled the decree validating an evidential seizure issued in an investigation into an alleged illegal betting collection point in Acireale. The judge ordered the case records to be sent to prosecutors so that the goods seized from the business, a stationery shop in the town, could be returned immediately.
Italy’s Council of State granted an operator’s interim request on 26 October 2026, suspending the enforceability of a Lazio Regional Administrative Court ruling over minimum distances from sensitive sites for AWP machines at an existing business in Cave. The court cited a risk of serious, irreparable harm while the dispute proceeds; the underlying case concerns a refusal by the XI Comunità Montana to authorise the machines, and the final decision remains pending.
Italy's Council of State has granted an interim request from a business operator and suspended the enforceability of a ruling by the Lazio Regional Administrative Court on minimum distances from sensitive sites for AWP gaming machines installed at an existing commercial business. In an order published on 26 October 2026, the Fourth Section suspended the enforceability of Lazio Regional Administrative Court judgment 14898/2026, finding an imminent risk of serious and irreparable harm to the operator while the dispute awaits a final decision.