GROUP FILES SUIT TO HALT LATEST LOTTERY GAME INJUNCTION SOUGHT TO STOP MULTISTATE MEGA MILLIONS.Byline: Steve Geissinger Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - The California Coalition Against Gambling Expansion filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking an injunction to shut down the state's two-week-old Mega Millions Mega Millions is a multi-state US$1 lottery game in the United States. Twelve U.S. states currently license Mega Millions as a provider of multistate lotteries in those states (29 states, the District of Columbia, and the US Virgin Islands license Powerball, Mega Millions' main multistate mul·ti·state adj. Of, relating to, or involving several states: a multistate environmental campaign. lotto. The coalition will formally notify the California State Lottery A game of chance operated by a state government. Generally a lottery offers a person the chance to win a prize in exchange for something of lesser value. Most lotteries offer a large cash prize, and the chance to win the cash prize is typically available for one dollar. of the action and publicly announce it today, the group's attorneys from the Sacramento and Woodland Hills areas told the Los Angeles Daily News The Daily News of Los Angeles, also known as the Los Angeles Daily News, is the second largest circulating daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is published by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which owns eight other Southern California newspapers . The coalition, represented by Sacramento-area attorney Fred Jones This article is about the basketball player. For other people with the same name, see Fred Jones (disambiguation). Frederick (Fred) Terrell Jones (born March 11 1979) is an American professional basketball player who plays at the shooting guard position for and Woodland Hills business law attorney Nicholas Roxborough, has scheduled a 10 a.m. news conference at the Capitol. The lawsuit rose out of allegations that the 12-state game is unconstitutional because it operates beyond California and was approved without adequate public review. The Governor's Office referred phone calls for reaction to the lottery, where a spokeswoman said the acting director, Chon Gutierrez, refused to ``speculate'' about the lawsuit until it was filed. Late Wednesday, he was not immediately available for comment. The lottery disclosed, however, that $16.5 million Mega Millions has hiked overall sales by about $9 million. But most of that - $7 million - came from players switching from California's ongoing Super Lotto Plus. The coalition's lawsuit ``requests the court immediately cease Mega Millions in California,'' Jones said. ``Participation in the game clearly violates explicit provisions of the Lottery Act.'' Voters made the act part of the state constitution in 1984. The coalition wants voters to consider any Lottery Act changes even though the Legislature can alter the games on a two-thirds vote with the governor's concurrence CONCURRENCE, French law. The equality of rights, or privilege which several persons-have over the same thing; as, for example, the right which two judgment creditors, Whose judgments were rendered at the same time, have to be paid out of the proceeds of real estate bound by them. Dict. de Jur. h.t. . Gutierrez, a Schwarzenegger administration troubleshooter, launched the game June 22 with the approval of a policy- setting commission largely appointed by the Republican governor, who views it as a deficit-easing device. In Mega Millions, players pay $1 to pick six numbers from 1 to 52 to match those drawn twice weekly. Bets in California are pooled with the existing Mega Millions states of New York, Texas New York is a hamlet in Henderson County, Texas, USA, about 11 miles east of Athens. Geography New York lies at the intersection of FM 804 and FM 607 in a stereotypically flat portion of East Texas, surrounded mostly by farm land. , Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia and Washington. Steve Geissinger, (916) 447-9302 sgeissinger(at)angnewspapers.com |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion