N.C. Lottery moves ahead after favorable court ruling
State judge says games came about legally; opponents may appeal
North Carolina's new lottery is on schedule to begin selling tickets March 30, after a state judge declined yesterday to stop it and after the top attorney for lottery opponents said he probably won't ask for an immediate stop to the games.
The long-term status of the lottery is less clear, though, as lottery opponents consider appeals to higher courts.
Among the opponents are several research groups from Raleigh, including ...
Mar 22, 2006, 7:30 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery lawsuit dismissed
North Carolina lottery will not be blocked
A Superior Court judge ruled today that the lottery legislation is not a tax, and threw out a lawsuit challenging how lawmakers created the state lottery.
Superior Court Judge Henry Chip Hight of Franklin County dismissed the lawsuit filed by the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law representing several taxpayers and interest groups.
No person is forced to purchase a lottery ticket, Hight wrote in an 11-page ruling. The lottery act does n ...
Mar 21, 2006, 2:17 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery in court
According to N.C. constitution, games are a tax, former justice says
Just 10 days before the first scratch-off tickets go on sale in North Carolina, lawyers argued yesterday about whether legislators followed proper procedure when they adopted a state lottery last year, and they asked a judge to block the lottery's start March 30.
Ultimately, the decision could come down to whether the lottery is considered a tax.
Lottery opponents from both the left and the right filed suit last year a ...
Mar 21, 2006, 6:48 am - - Lottery News forum
Fight over lottery's legality returns to N.C. court
The first scratch-off games have been unveiled, computer terminals installed at thousands of convenience stores, and prelaunch television ads edited.
But the North Carolina Education Lottery will have to get past one more challenge before the first tickets are sold March 30.
Attorneys were ready to appear in a Wake County court Monday over a lawsuit filed by taxpayers, lawmakers and advocacy groups questioning whether the General Assembly followed the constitution when it approved the lott ...
Mar 20, 2006, 6:47 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. lottery scratch tickets on sale in 15 days
Scratch-off tickets in the North Carolina Education Lottery (NCEL) will go on sale in 15 days, and retailers around the state are getting ready for the games to begin.
Chip King of Neb King Inc. in Person County plans to sell lottery tickets at his convenience stores. But King said he was about a week behind other stores as far as getting geared up to offer lottery tickets to customers however, since there was a small glitch in the massive application process, for his five stores.
Kassie ...
Mar 16, 2006, 7:06 am - - Lottery News forum
First proposed N.C. lottery ad beats to different drummer
The first television commercial for the North Carolina Education Lottery apparently will be looking literally to drum up support.
In a concept draft of the ad released by the lottery commission late Tuesday, a man sits in a chair in his home, starting to scratch off a lottery ticket with a coin.
Then a drum roll is heard, and the man gives an excited look to his wife before a marching band walks through their living room and plays a fight song. A narrator then talks about the new lottery, ...
Mar 15, 2006, 6:44 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. lottery director says lower payouts could hurt sales
The law requiring the North Carolina lottery to return at least 35 percent of all ticket sales to state education programs could inhibit sales and ultimately cost the state money, according to the lottery's executive director and other experts.
To meet the requirement, North Carolina will pay out less to winners than neighboring states offer. Tom Shaheen, director of the state lottery and a past president of the North American lottery trade association, said that could mean fewer tickets ar ...
Mar 9, 2006, 7:18 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery officials mum on payout of first tickets
$1, $2 and $5 scratch-off games now printing for March 30 debut
Scratch-off tickets for North Carolina's first lottery games will range in cost from $1 to $5, lottery officials said Tuesday.
Lottery director Tom Shaheen shared this and a few other details about the games after a lottery commissioners meeting Tuesday.
But Shaheen balked when reporters asked him details about the games, such as what the biggest payout would be for a scratch-off ticket.
If I tell you what it's about, i ...
Mar 8, 2006, 6:46 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery Update: Moving Quickly
More than 200 stores in Forsyth County have applied to sell scratch-off tickets for the scheduled start of the new North Carolina lottery March 30.
Although most of them are convenience stores and grocery chains, applicants also include a miniature-golf course, several tobacconists, at least one pawn shop and a store that sells Indian food and spices.
At one store, Blue Ridge Tobacco Candle Outlet on Cloverdale Avenue, customers should soon be able to buy scratch-off tickets with their c ...
Mar 6, 2006, 8:15 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery machines installed
Lottery machines are coming to counter tops at convenience stores around North Carolina. In fact, at least one was installed Thursday.
Contractors began installing machines at the Kangaroo store on Castle Hayne Road in New Hanover County Thursday morning. It's one of the first devices in Southeastern North Carolina. Lottery machines are already in place in Wilmington at the Scotchman on 23rd Street and a Kangaroo store on Oleander Drive.
The stores get something for giving up the space th ...
Feb 24, 2006, 8:57 am - - Lottery News forum
