Good luck.
I'm sure he and his lawyer are just looking for a settlement.......everybody thinks they're owed something......another indication of the overall deterioration of society in general.
Was it a Dominion machine?
The guy is an idiot.
This guy owes his friend a very generous cut when he wins the lawsuit, or more likely when they settle with him. Obviously.
In Ohio, every lottery ticket has printer on the back that you agree to comply with the laws and rules of the Ohio Lottery Commission. I’m pretty sure that among these rules are that they are not responsible for publication of wrong numbers. In other words “too bad, so sad.”
Seems “test” screens cause many issues.
“Test’ screens showing candidates projected winner well before polls close or much % counted.
Test in this case (and every case of “test” mistakes) should have been all zeros or such.
If someone is dumb enough to make a test screen so specific, and even dumber to (accidentally) run it live as has happened on tv and other places numerous times, then they are responsible for confusion they caused and need to make that right in some way.
not just “Oopsie”, each time they do it.
Because it’s happening more and more frequent: leaks of all sorts of info, by accident, they say.
Sure this guy doesn’t deserve the full amount but the lottery system displayed information as winning numbers, coming from them. Their information mislead him.
He deserves some thing more than “sorry”.
where is their responsibility for mistakes?
The guy wasn’t mistaken, he saw what they put on the screen.
Bad legal theory. INstead, he should have claimed that he relied on the inaccurate announcement to buy drinks at the local bar for everyone and now the outfit that posted the wrong number has to reimburse him for the drinks. I think he would have a case for that.
The guy sounds like he’s not counting on receiving the Dung Beetle Party’s African slave reparation millions for all the cotton he didn’t pick centuries ago.
One time I dreamed that I had won the lottery, but then I woke up and was disappointed. I should sue.
They could buy this guy another lottery ticket and let it go at that. Even that is more than he’s entitled to, but it would be a gesture of goodwill.
I had a similar thing happen to me in the 80’s. The local paper published the winning Lottery numbers for both the Washington and Oregon Lotteries
As I read the numbers, I realized I had won $3M. The only problem was they posted the Oregon Lotto winning numbers for Washington and vice versa.
I guessed I should have sued the local newspaper...
Wow... so apparently when a bank makes a clerical error which results in a massive amount of $$ being credited to an account by mistake, the person who’s account was filled with $$ that isnt theirs can sue the bank for the full amount if they deny him the agility to remove the $$ or use it?
I’ll never understand why there aren’t payouts limited to ONE million dollars. I don’t play lotteries AND am poor at math...
It’s a publishing error - wrong numbers published on a website he looks at doesn’t make those be the numbers that came up in the actual drawing. “Thinking” you won and actually winning are two different things.
I’m pretty sure he won’t get an amount equal to the jackpot, but he’ll probably get a pretty good chunk of change nevertheless.
I think the Powerball people could have to pay something. THEY PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC ON THEIR WEBSITE winning data that was false. Yes, the guy ought not get the grand prize that false, PUBLISHED, data said was his. But I bet he’ll get something, if he has a good lawyer.