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'Lucky guy' sells ticket that wins half of $42 mllion Lotto jackpotReply
It would be reasonable to think it's the person who sells the ticket that gets the bonus if you just know that the lottery pays a bonus for selling a winning ticket. As an incentive to sell tickets it would probably make more sense for the lottery to pay the person selling the ticket than the person who owns the store. The store owner already has a profit motive for selling tickets, but the clerks only have motive for doing a good job. As far as Ho guessing at who bought the winning ticke
Feb 16, 2007, 2:38 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Defrauded lottery winner finally gets apology -- and moneyNews Story
More than five years after Bob Edmonds called the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to complain that he may have been defrauded out of a winning Super 7 ticket, he has an apology and the right to speak freely. But he still doesn't have the full $250,000 he originally won in the August 2001 draw. The 82-year-old cancer survivor and resident of Coboconk, Ont., only ended up with a total of $202,000, after a lengthy legal proceeding against the lottery corporation. The details of the
Oct 30, 2006, 5:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lawsuit over $315 million lottery jackpot goes to trialReply
The meaning of such an agreement seems crystal clear. If the group had an agreement that everyone would be included whenever they (which means the whole group, and not just the part of the group that is present at any given time) bought tickets then everyone who was part of the group is included. Collecting the ticket money from somebody who isn't there when the rest of the group chips in for the tickets is just one of many details that don't invalidate the rest of the agreement. Whether or
Jun 7, 2006, 4:49 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Million-dollar ticket fight goes before Mass. Lottery boardReply
Drivedabizness wrote:<< All the legal mumbo-jumbo is intersting - but hardly on point. Lawsuit after lawsuit has been settled (I suppose since I'm evidently dealing with attorneys I should say decided) according to the principle that lotteries can't decide these kinds of issues. >>How could the legal mumbo jumbo not be on point in a legal case? Similar legal cases exist exactly because the courts can decide these issues, though there's no guarantee that they'll decide them prope
Dec 3, 2005, 11:26 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Million-dollar ticket fight goes before Mass. Lottery boardReply
Bearer instrument just means that the issuer doesn't keep a record of the owner or any changes in ownership, but does nothing to prove that the person in possession is actually the owner. The role of the court is to decide who the rightful owner is in the case of a dispute. Deliberately discarding property means you've willfully relinquished ownership, but if you lose something you still own it for a period of time defined by law, and the law also spells out the procedure for the finder to bec
Nov 30, 2005, 6:12 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Powerball Lottery Winner Found Dead in Her Geodesic DomeNews Story
A woman who won a $65.4 million Powerball jackpot with her husband five years ago was found dead at her home overlooking the Ohio River, where she had apparently been for days before anyone found her, police said.Virginia Metcalf Merida's son discovered her body Wednesday. Police were awaiting autopsy and toxicology results before announcing a cause of death.When the woman and her husband, Mack Wayne Metcalf, won the jackpot, they told lottery officials they were going their separate ways to ful
Nov 28, 2005, 6:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

$100,000 lottery ticket claim goes to courtNews Story
An administrative law judge is considering the claim by two Indiana men that they are the rightful owners of a $100,000 lottery ticket that was tossed in the trash.Judge Gregg Henry said he would rule within two months after hearing 6 1/2 hours of testimony Wednesday. Ownership of the ticket has been in dispute as it was put into a trash can at the Chaperral Cafe in Shelbyville, Indiana on Feb. 8 after a clerk told Ron Douglas and Ron Vinson that the $5 ticket was not the $40 winner they were ho
May 13, 2005, 11:29 am - Todd - Lottery News

Jury rules lottery pool members entitled to share Mega Millions prizeNews Story
Only six Ohio postal workers sued Stephen Kyle for a piece of a $175,000 winning lottery ticket.But all 20 lottery-pool members -- including Kyle -- will share the jackpot evenly after a jury ruled Tuesday that Kyle was wrong to keep the money for himself, cutting his colleagues out of their fair shares.If all 20 stake a claim, each will be eligible to receive $8,750, before taxes. Three of the pool members who testified on Kyle's behalf during the two-day trial in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas C
Jan 20, 2005, 4:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Judge awards excluded worker $1 million share of Big Game jackpotNews Story
A New Jersey Superior Court Judge ruled that a supermarket employee who thought she was included in a ticket-buying pool even though she couldn't immediately pay is entitled to share in a $32.9 million Big Game lottery jackpot.In a non-jury trial, Judge Mitchel Ostrer ruled Wednesday that Mary Marinelli, 49, of Dover Township is entitled to one-34th of the money won by employees of the Pathmark supermarket in Brick Township.David Mazie, the woman's attorney, said her share will be about $1 milli
Feb 13, 2004, 8:03 am - Todd - Lottery News

DC man sues the lottery after incorrect numbers posted on website would have won him $340 millionNews Story
A Washington, D.C. man who thought he had won a $340 million Powerball jackpot is suing the lottery and other companies related to the Powerball game after the district's website displayed the wrong winning numbers, which happened to match the numbers on his ticket. John Cheeks purchased a Powerball lottery ticket at the center of the dispute on Jan. 6, 2023. Although Cheeks did not see the Powerball drawing the following day, he saw his numbers posted on the DC lottery's website two days la
Feb 21, 2024, 7:48 am - Todd - Lottery News