USA Today reports that many states have continued selling scratch-off jackpot tickets long after the top prizes emblazoned all over the tickets have already been awarded. A law professor in Virginia is filing a class action suit claiming the state sold more than $20 million worth of such tickets per year for at least three years.
The states claim that the practice isn’t fraudulent because smaller prizes are still available, and because lottery players can check the back of tickets (after they’ve already bought them) and websites for disclaimers and lists of prizes already claimed. Despite that weak defense, several states, including Virginia, have since discontinued the practice.
Virginia, by the way, has killed two of its citizens in police actions aimed at protecting residents of the Old Dominion from losing their money while gambling privately. Because those shady black market bookies might take your money under false pretenses.
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They Put Their Weed In ItFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 11:34:37
Chicago gets tough on drugs:
Tiny plastic bags used to sell small quantities of heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs would be banned in Chicago, under a crackdown advanced Tuesday by a City Council committee.
Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd) persuaded the Health Committee to ban possession of “self-sealing plastic bags under two inches in either height or width,” after picking up 15 of the bags on a recent Sunday afternoon stroll through a West Side park.
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Post Date: 2008-03-05 08:47:01
My colleague Jacob Sullum notes that Republicans crossing over may have given Hillary her win in Texas last night. That would seem to jibe with the tacit support she seems to be garnering on right-wing blogs.
As I wrote several months ago, it would be really stupid for the Democrats to nominate her. Obama will whip McCain. Hillary may be the GOP’s last hope of retaining the White House.
The other reason I think the pro-war right is flocking to Hillary is that, like President...
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Post Date: 2008-03-05 08:20:11
The national Innocence Project and the Mississippi Innocence Project have sent open records requests to every district attorney in the state of Mississippi. The request asks for a copy of every autopsy embattled medical examiner Steven Hayne has performed on their behalf at Mississippi’s state crime lab facility in Jackson.
Though Hayne is not a state employee, he began conducting his marathon, all-night autopsy sessions at the state facility a few years ago. In the 15 or so years...
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Post Date: 2008-03-05 05:58:20
Not one , but two scandals this week. Be interesting to see how it affects the voting for David Hernandez or Amanda Overmeyer. On to the show. It was 80s night last night. My live-ish review:
Luke Menard — Never sing a song that sent a contestant home early in previous years, particularly if you’re hanging by a thread yourself. Sang Wham’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” a really awful song that’s somehow fitting for this guy’s milquetoast on...
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