Court Opinion

ID: 9739720
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:20:08.362564+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:13.648059
License: Public Domain

MILLER, Chief Justice
(concurring specially).
I respectfully suggest the writers concurring in result miss the point. The money contested by Parsons is the prize proceeds, it is not the State’s share of money collected by Lotto*America retailers. Indeed, the State’s share has already been remitted to a public fund. There is absolutely no public right to even one cent of the prize proceeds. Public interest in the distribution of the prize money does not make the prize money into public funds. It is not a public concern and does not convert public rights or funds. This is a private matter between the Lottery Commission and its declared winner.