If anyone needs an example of a Lotto Pool contract, let me know. I have mine somewhere around here in electronic format. All of my members signed...and there are rules, etc. such as paying on time and all that.

Money has no friends, only leeches. Do it alone, or don't do it.

I think he should get piece of the pie if indeed he played with them on the regular basis.

If I did not pay my money to the pool to buy tickets for that drawing, I would never expect winnings regardless how many times I had played in the pool previously.  I hope his other non-pool co-workers give him crap about his lawsuit.  This is about jealousy 100%.

As the one statement indicated, he hadnt been in the pool for a year , so what in heavens gives him the right to proclaim a stake in it. Sorry this smells of greed. Hopefully the courts will toss this case out and move on to issues of importance. No settlement should even transpire. Unless he has receipts showing he made payments on a weekly basis towards this lottery pool. (which I'll bet the farm he doesnt). 

Our work lottery pool is clearly spelled out. You dont pay in, you dont get the payouts :) Each week the board is cleared there is no rollover of monies to cover any player. The winnings each week are dispersed equally. There was a week when we hit $100 and the one player wasnt in the pool, he wanted his share and we kindly said, wheres your receipt for play for that week? He nodded and agreed he hadnt played...you snooze you looze.Its that simple.

Good work! It's about time Pools get their business straight. I am sick of freeloaders who expect to get out more than they put in.

What type of receipt do you use?  Sounds like it's a very well thought out pool  where each drawing stands on its own, is terminated and doesn't carry forward any ties to the next. 

I WEAR A BATHING SUIT IN MY POOL...THAT'S IT. Lottery Pools are becoming a sleeze ball's paradise. I'll never participate in a pool or go partners with anyone. And...remember to check your own tickets.

I use a Program called Peachtree. Each Participant has an  account within the program. Once the monies are collected and imputed, a receipt is printed. The player then gets a copy of the tickets based on that weeks plays. This way a paper record and a database can be used in courts (if it ever got that far out of hand) to show who played and who didnt. The receipts have a message area that spells out the rules for each play period.

Thanks very much for your answer.  That sounds like a really good system that covers all bases!! Good luck to all of you .. hope you hit a big jackpot!!   

LOL! That's funny! Never crossed his mind before finding this board. 

The only surprise I see in all of his is that he is the only one that has filed so far......You guys are in california....quick somebody start a documentary on this group for the next couple of years....I would pay money to see how their future folds out after the jackpot....

And sue hiss ass for my legal fees for a frivolous law suit

As long as I've seen the receipt from a previous week, what's to prevent me from printing my own if you win? If you use a printer at work and I also have access to it my forensic expert will be testifying that all of the receipts were printed on the same machine. Even if a receipt is accepted as proof that somebody paid in, lack of one doesn't prove somebody didn't pay in.  Maybe I pissed you off and you really are trying to cheat me out of my share. If there's ever a court case the decision is going to be based on the court's faith in testimony andthe court's faith in the validity of any written agreement.

In the California case each of the seven people who were definitely part of the pool has about $2 million worth of after-tax incentive to tell their version of the story, and that gives the plaintiff an excellent opportunity to question their credibility. Naturally they'll have the same opportunity to question his. Based on the information in the article some of the winners have admitted that the plaintiff was a member of a pool in the past, and the claim that this was the first time that the particular group played together strongly suggest there isn't a written agreement.  The plaintiff may not have good proof that he is entitled to a share, but it sounds like the defendants may not have any proof that he wasn't a legitimate member of the pool. The best evidence a pool can have is a well written agreement that clearly spells out the rules,  lists all of the members, and is signed by all of the members and notarized. All members should have a certified copy. The rules have to include the procedures for failure of a regular player to pay, and  for dropping somebody from the pool, or you're just begging for a lawsuit if a regular player isn't in a drawing the results in a significant win. If people pay in two weeks ahead of time it will be easy to fairly accomodate somebody who misses a couple of days of work, and still allow enough time to send a certified letter notifying somebody that they're being dropped.

There's nothing you can do that will guarantee that somebody doesn't file a lawsuit, but a good plan will certainly make it much harder for them to convince a jury that they deserve a share. Its also a lot of effort to put into something that's very unlikely to return a profit.