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$325 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot goes through the roofReply
We've been living in a world where people who enter into contracts have to follow the law and do what they agreed to do since long before PB and MM came along. Even if there's a written contract that says everyone has to pay ahead of time that provision may be modified when parties to the contract allow somebody to participate and then pay after the fact. Do that for one guy when you don't win anything and then try to deny a share to somebody who had a reasonable excuse for not paying on time fo
Nov 23, 2012, 12:09 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Lottery investigator testifies she urged illegal immigrant to keep, sign $3M ticketReply
I'm not sure English can fix naive or stupid. Sure, he'd have known the contract was for more than he'd agreed on, but he's not getting any of it anyway, so he still comes out with nothing no matter what the contract said.
Sep 29, 2012, 10:41 am - HoLeeKau - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery director offers reassurances on outsourcingNews Story
Indiana won't turn its lottery over to a private company if bidders don't meet the state's high standards, the executive director of the Hoosier Lottery said Friday. The state has been seeking bids on a 10-year contract to run the Hoosier Lottery. Executive Director Karl Browning released a statement Friday, a day after a spokeswoman for Camelot Global Services, which runs the national lottery in Great Britain, told The Indianapolis Star it dropped out because the state's process encourages b
Sep 8, 2012, 8:49 am - Todd - Lottery News

Report: Ill. lottery manager short $100M on profitReply
They just didn't know who's palm to grease,in Illinois it could be any number of officials from the govenor on down.So they decided to inflate the numbers to get the contract and immediatly started to back pedal once the ink on the contract was dry.It should be interesting to see how this plays out.
Aug 2, 2012, 8:44 pm - Cletu$2 - Lottery News

N.J. woman suing state over lottery taxReply
This isn't an ex post facto argument. The argument here is breach of contract. Since the STATE operates the lottery AND sets tax law, by passing a retroactive tax on lottery winnings it effectively violated the terms of the contract under which the tickets were sold. They were sold until June 29 with the understanding that winnings would not be taxable. In effect, the state made the tickets less valuable after they had been sold.
Jun 7, 2011, 11:11 pm - RichinNJ - Lottery News

B.C. Lottery faces lawsuit from second problem gamblerReply
Exactly he signed a contract saying he knows the risk of having his jackpot or winnings taken from him. There's also other things in the contract like he can be fined up to a certain amount of money for being at the casino, that he's tresspassing and if caught to many times...the police maybe involved,and also he acknowledge there's a chance the casino staff might not catch him everytime he gambles ..but they do their best.
Jul 26, 2010, 3:28 am - LittleAsianguy - Lottery News

$500K lottery prize divides two elderly sistersReply
Ok.These sisters should have had an ending date on their contract.They didn't do that.They could have bought two tickets with the same numbers on it.They didn't do that.They could have had an attorney make the contract for them.They didn't do that.Ok,I have one question for the sisters.Which one of you have the Alzheimers ?.
Aug 13, 2009, 2:23 pm - larry3100 - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery director resignsReply
It was my impression that the old contract had ended and the new contract was up for bids and Intralot won the bid. I understand Gtech had planned to make changes too if they won the bid so how did this stress the economy?
Aug 9, 2009, 12:29 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

Court: elderly sisters' gambling pact forces lottery jackpot splitReply
It's a bit strange. I wonder if the contract was for life. It was ten years between the contract signing and the year that one of the sisters won the jackpot. But how long have they been fighting? One year, two or all ten?
Feb 5, 2008, 11:28 am - ThatScaryChick - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery asks firms to pay cost for errorReply
Asked? ASKED?! It wasn't written in the contract that the supplier wouldn't be responsible for its own errors? Whoever was involved in the authorship and review of that contract ought to be canned.
Oct 31, 2007, 2:48 pm - johnph77 - Lottery News