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Woman who gave away lotto ticket won't give upNews Story
Emily Leach, who won a million-dollar jackpot in California last January, said she is hoping to fight the state lottery's decision stopping her from collecting a second jackpot of $260,000 winnings that came from a ticket Leach has famously claimed she accidentally gave away to a stranger in March. (See Generous former lottery winner says she accidentally gave away second winning ticket, Lottery Post, Mar. 27, 2012.) A lottery official informed her that we gave the check to the man in June
Aug 20, 2012, 5:45 am - Lottery News

Woman sues business partner for share of $12.6M lottery jackpotNews Story
A lawsuit launched by a New Westminster, British Columbia, woman who claims she was tricked out of her equal share of a $12.6 million lottery jackpot is going to a full trial. A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled that the legal action filed by Maria Ganguin over the winning Canada Lotto 6/49 ticket against her ex-business partner, Maria Fehr, and her husband, Daniel Fehr, should be settled with full testimony before a trial judge. The defendants sought to have the matter resolved in a summ
Jun 6, 2012, 8:00 am - Lottery News

Judge orders new trial in Arkansas lottery ticket suitNews Story
An Arkansas judge on Thursday ordered a new trial to decide who can claim a $1 million scratch-off lottery ticket prize, a little more than three weeks after he ruled that a woman who said she bought the ticket but mistakenly discarded it was entitled to the money. White County Circuit Judge Thomas Hughes ruled May 1 that Sharon Duncan should get the prize money, not two other women involved in the case. Hughes ordered the new trial in a one-paragraph ruling that did not elaborate on his reas
May 25, 2012, 7:18 am - Lottery News

Two workers in lottery pool sue over $118 million ticketNews Story
Two employees of a Chicago Heights, Illinois, bakery are suing co-workers over a $118 million Mega Millions jackpot, alleging they were unfairly left out of the winnings. Jose Franco and Marco Medina were regular participants in a lottery pool with co-workers at the bakery for about a year, according to the suit. The group won $9 during a drawing on May 1, and there was an understanding that the money would be used to purchase more tickets for a May 4 drawing, the suit said. Some employees
May 17, 2012, 9:42 am - Lottery News

Woman accuses son of taking $51 million lottery ticketNews Story
A California woman has sued her son and accused him of making off with her $51 million Mega Millions lottery ticket, and then racking up expenses on houses, cars, and cash gifts. The legal dispute between Etta May Urquhart, 76, and her son Ronnie Orender, who had been a truck driver, centers on who owns the ticket. She admits he signed it, but she is the one who lottery officials acknowledge bought the slip of paper. In May 2011, Urquhart went to her local Mobil gas station in Bakersfield,
May 6, 2012, 8:22 am - Lottery News

In group lottery wins, splitting the spoils toughNews Story
Every once in a while a lottery jackpot becomes so huge that people can't help but band together in the hope of increasing their odds, pooling their money for a wad of tickets and promising to evenly split the spoils. Seems like a good idea until lightning strikes and the group wins. Then the future involves not only luxury, but also lawsuits. Numerous group winners have been sued by people claiming to have pitched in for the ticket, creating messy fights over what money will be left once the
Apr 4, 2012, 8:10 am - Lottery News

Maryland Mega Millions winner already in pool disputeNews Story
Says $105M is all hers; McDonald's workers say it's theirs Mega Millions mania has plunged a Maryland McDonald's into a bubbling cauldron of controversy hotter than a deep-fried apple pie. Workers at the fast-food joint who pooled their cash for tickets are furious at a colleague who claims she won with a ticket she bought for herself and has no intention of sharing. We had a group plan, but I went and played by myself. [The 'winning' ticket] wasn't on the group plan, McDonald's winner
Apr 2, 2012, 9:59 am - Lottery News

Generous former lottery winner says she accidentally gave away second winning ticketNews Story
Says lottery ticket was mixed in with money she gave away When Emily Leach stopped by Liquor Tobacco, a convenience store in the San Francisco Bay Area community of Mountain View, before Friday's drawing for the California state lottery's Mega Millions Jackpot then worth $290 million she was already a kind of celebrated figure at the store after winning $1 million on a lottery ticket she bought there in January. Her recent good fortune allowed her to perform random acts of generosity for s
Mar 27, 2012, 3:34 pm - Lottery News

Mega Millions winner forced to split jackpot with co-workersNews Story
For one New Jersey lottery winner looking to keep a Mega Millions jackpot all to himself, luck ran out today. Americo Lopes, who took home a $24 million jackpot three years ago, must surrender $20 million of that bounty to five former coworkers after a civil jury found he cheated the men out of their rightful share of the winnings. On Nov. 10, 2009, two winning Mega Millions tickets were claimed from a $77 million jackpot, one of which Lopes had, leaving him with $38.5 million. He chose a
Mar 15, 2012, 8:43 am - Lottery News

NJ man sued over $38.5M lottery ticketNews Story
A trail is underway in the case of a New Jersey construction worker who is being sued by his former co-workers after cashing in a $38.5 million lottery ticket. Americo Lopes and five co-workers participated in a weekly lottery pool starting in 2007 where they worked at Berto Construction, according to the New Jersey Star-Ledger. Each participant contributed $2 to the pool and Lopes would buy the tickets. Lopes also played the lottery independently from the pool. On November 10, 2009, tw
Mar 14, 2012, 9:12 am - Lottery News