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What if group buys winning lottery ticket?News Story
Q: We are a financial club that invests in the stock market and also buys weekly lottery tickets. We all contribute and one member buys the tickets. It's wishful thinking, but what if the ticket wins $1 million? What are the payment basics and how can we protect ourselves against the ticket purchaser claiming the winnings for himself?-- Hopeful in Hialeah A: Let's first talk business law, and then we'll suggest some precautions to assure proper division of payment.A lottery ticket is a unilater
Sep 8, 2003, 3:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

Is Georgia too much on their minds?News Story
Tennessee's new lottery board appears to be rushing headlong into a partnership with Georgia, and someone needs to slow the train down so the public can have a better view of where it is headed.The plunge to do business with Georgia has raised more questions than members of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. have answered. The first and foremost is the legality of such a contract.That question is expected to have an answer from Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers in a formal legal opinion
Sep 3, 2003, 3:54 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. Powerball winner target of $10M lawsuit by local pastorNews Story
Marie Holmes, North Carolina's $188 million Powerball lottery winner, is back in the news again. This time Holmes is not spending millions of dollars on bailing her boyfriend, Lamarr Hot Sauce McDow, out-of-jail for the fourth time, but a pastor is allegedly suing her for $10 million for reneging on a verbal contract. The 27-year-old mother of two took home a $127 million lump sum payment following her lottery win in February, 2015. (See N.C. Powerball lottery winner claims share of jackpo
Feb 15, 2016, 9:01 am - Todd - Lottery News

Wyoming Lottery hires Oregon Lottery official as CEONews Story
Start of games might be delayed up to 1 year The Wyoming Lottery Corporation on Monday announced its selection of an Oregon man to serve as its first chief executive officer. Jon Clontz, 49, will start Oct. 7 as CEO at a salary of $165,000 a year, said Brian Scott Gamroth, chairman of the Wyoming Lottery Corporation board. Clontz served as deputy director with the Oregon Lottery for the past two years. His leadership qualities, strong communication skills, and a proven track record
Sep 24, 2013, 10:55 am - Todd - Lottery News

D.C. Lottery continues to evolve online gambling planNews Story
The D.C. Lottery's planned online gambling program will not be hosted on the city's secure DC-NET Internet system as originally planned, information technology officials said Wednesday. The gambling program known as iGaming faces a repeal effort in the D.C. Council, yet lottery officials have been working on its implementation since it passed into law as part of a supplemental budget plan last December. D.C. Lottery's initial plans to use DC-NET a high-speed fiber-optic network that carrie
Dec 8, 2011, 8:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

Bill to outsource Indiana Lottery bans keno, video pokerNews Story
Many upset over Governor's plan to 'sell the Lottery' A bill that would allow Gov. Mitch Daniels to outsource the Hoosier Lottery would prohibit a private operator from offering keno, video lottery games, pari-mutuel wagering on horses or dogs and games based on winners of races or other sporting events. Sen. James Merritt, R-Indianapolis, filed the bill Thursday on behalf of the administration but said he was allowed to put his own principles in it and was not in favor of such gambling ex
Jan 19, 2007, 12:00 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Robert Serotic Lottery Strategy booksReply
For everyone's edification on the limits of copywright: I am reposting an important message regarding why copwright laws cannot protect ostensibly 'Golden Fleece' systems, Holy Grails, etc. This is rather long but highly informative and significant for those interested in the realities of copywrites, but fair warning, the length of this talesman treatise may cause pain to some unacustomed readers lips LOL EddessaKnight ~ The basis for Copyright Law comes from the U.S. Constitu
Dec 6, 2007, 3:09 pm - eddessaknight - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Company managing Ohio Lottery
Approximately 18 months ago a new company based in England was given a multi year contract to manage the Ohio Lottery. The more things change the more they stay the same! The lottery website is famous for skipping drawing results, not posting results timely and recently the top 10 recent winners for one of the progressive games was listed with 10 winners all from July, 2019! Numerous coincidences and anomalies the last several years is cause for suspicion that all is not on the up and up with th
Mar 8, 2026, 6:04 pm - Kenoman 14 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Arizona lottery retailer employee sued after buying $12.8 million ticket knowing it was a winnerReply
Some great case law will be made one way or another in this matter. I assume these stores are like a franchise but if the contract is silent on the issue, it may be split between Citcle K and the store manager (owner?). The Circle k website says it uses a hybrid model for the stores so this may control the outcome along with what has been the standard practice for leftover tickets. Update: It looks like individual stores are required to pay for unsold tickets so the individual store owner mi
Feb 26, 2026, 12:11 pm - Artist77 - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball RaceReply
Tucker, I think you misunderstood. My numbers 1 and 2 are just things to be considered and decided upon when setting up the agreement/contract for the lottery pool. I have not read every article in the universe about lottery pool troubles, but I have read quite a few over the years about payment issues and ticket purchases. Example 1: Kind of like my number 1 - https://www.lotterypost.com/news/340732 Example 2: Kind of like my number 2 - https://www.lotterypost.com/news/3260
Jun 20, 2025, 9:15 pm - IAmABadOne - Lottery Discussion Forum