April 24, 2025

Nixon & Vanderhye (N&V) shareholders Joe Presta and Bob Rowan have, for the second time, led a team that included N&V shareholder Jonathon Reavill, N&V associate Sheri Gordon, and local counsel Jeff Cross (a Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP partner), in a Walker Process fraud/sham litigation antitrust lawsuit they brought against Scientific Games and two subsidiaries that resulted in a favorable outcome for N&V’s clients.

Representing TCS John Huxley America, Inc., TCS John Huxley Europe Limited, TCS John Huxley Asia Limited, and Taiwan Fulgent Enterprise Co., Ltd., Joe and Bob sued the Scientific Games defendants in 2019 on grounds that they obtained their monopoly of the casino automatic card shuffling market through fraud on the U.S. Patent Office and used their fraudulently obtained patents to force the companies out of that market.  Joe, Bob, and the team pursued similar claims in a 2015 Walker Process fraud/sham litigation antitrust lawsuit against the same defendants and in the same court on behalf of other N&V clients that resulted in a $105 million jury award (tripled by the court to $315 million) plus attorney fees in 2018.

In TCS John Huxley, Joe and Bob led the team in the ensuing six-year battle to prevail against Scientific Games’ attempts to end the case on summary judgment (April 19, 2024 post “Scientific Games Loses Bid to End Walker Process Fraud/Sham Litigation Antitrust Action on Summary Judgment for the Second Time in Ruling that Provides Caveats on IDS Submissions to the USPTO”).  With a May 2025 trial approaching, Joe and Bob have now secured a settlement in which Scientific Games, without admitting liability, agreed to pay $72.5 million.