Consumer Protection Law
Sep. 29, 2026
Addressing the harm caused by online sports gambling platforms and prediction markets
Sports betting apps are engineered to addict, and consumer protection lawyers are taking them on.
Zachary N. Zaharoff
Partner and Trial Lawyer
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP
Email: zzaharoff@cpmlegal.com
Zachary N. Zaharoff maintains a broad practice in personal injury and consumer protection, with a recent focus on consumer harm inflicted by technology companies.
Online sports betting is a problem.
Prior to 2018, for most Americans, betting on sports meant traveling to a casino and placing an in-person bet at a sports book. That barrier to sports gambling was not a historical accident. For most of the last century, society set up legal frameworks and safeguards that treated gambling as a vice to be contained, and containment meant inconvenience. In 2018, the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on state-authorized sports betting in
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