Tennessee Lottery officials respond to lawsuit

Comment #4

hypersoniq — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:54:17 GMT

the problem with this is that the other contestants already got paid...The lottery not following it's own guidelines is bad business, perhaps the kind of thing that triggers an administrative audit.the only way to fairly resolve this (which is the lottery commission's fault, BTW) is to bring back the 2nd and 3rd place winner.... and let them pick one of 3 envelopes again... in 2 separate picks (one each, can't get more random than that...3rd place winner already won 10k, so he would have one env... [ More ]

Comment #3

tg636 — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:30:29 GMT

The fact is the state didn't follow the stated rules of the game and he didn't win. No one can say if nerfarious behavior or favoritism was involved, but it certainly seems suspicious and he doesn't deserve to have his shot at $1 million blown in such a way - I guarantee anyone here would be raging mad at losing in such a way. All he should have to prove is the state didn't follow the game's rules, not that the way it was done was still random . What if the state allowed him to pick again in a... [ More ]

Comment #2

fja — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:37:46 GMT

alot of sloppy lottery drawings lately

Comment #1

CASH Only — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:22:38 GMT

He won $10,000, rather than 10 thousand dollars .

Tennessee Lottery officials respond to lawsuit

Lottery Post — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:02:58 GMT

The Tennessee Attorney General's office says a Fayetteville man can't sue the lottery on grounds he could have won a million dollars.The state also claims in its motion filed last week that the lawsuit by Dennis Perry was filed in the wrong county and any damages would be purely speculative. Perry won 10 thousand dollars in the lottery's first one million dollar drawing on June 26th.He sued after the lottery failed to follow the rules it set for the drawing. He claims that it eliminated the ran... [ More ]